This article was first published in Indo-Pacific Defense Forum, a publication of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, on August 14, 2023. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging existential warfare against the rest of the world. It is a war for global control, and the CCP aspires to win it without fighting [ … ]
Academia
Understanding China’s Influence
This article was first published in Per Corcordiam, a publication of U.S. European Command, on September 12, 2024. The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) economic and political position in Europe is extremely important to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and effort is being made to enhance that position. The PRC [ … ]
How Russian Surveillance Tech is Reshaping Latin America
This article was originally published by the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, Florida International University in September 2024. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the past decade, Russian-based companies have provided sophisticated surveillance technology to several Latin American countries. These technologies are critical to the survival of the repressive regimes [ … ]
Revisiting the Russian threat in Central America
The existing asymmetries between China and Russia are an element to distinguish the influence capabilities of both countries in Latin America. While the People's Republic of China is understood as a rising global power, provided with abundant financial resources to capture elites and access strategic sectors within Latin American nations [ … ]
Transnational Repression CCP’s Covert, often Illegal Overseas Policing Draws International Condemnation
This article was first published in the Indo-Pacific Defense FORUM on December 18, 2024. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to face international criticism for violating the sovereignty of nations across the globe with its “overseas police service stations,” clandestine offices established in many cases without the approval or [ … ]
Challenges of, Innovation among, and Cooperation Between Central American and Caribbean Air Forces
From August 26-29, 2024, I had the honor of participating as the moderator of the Central America and Caribbean Air Chiefs Conference, hosted by the leadership of U.S. Air Forces Southern (12th Air Force) in Tucson, Arizona. The event was an opportunity for the heads of the Air Forces of [ … ]
Securing the Digital Seabed: Countering China’s Underwater Ambitions
This article was first published in the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs on November 15, 2023 The Indian Ocean is becoming a major theater of geopolitical contest for strategic dominance in the wider Indo-Pacific. The Western Indian Ocean (WIO), in particular, has emerged as the strategic center stage for great-power games. [ … ]
Information-Related Capabilities, a Fundamental Component in the Security and Defense of Nations
Summary The constant evolution of information and communication technologies, in the context of global dynamics, have become par excellence the dynamizing engine of the ideological media pulse in the scenarios of bidding and great power competition, where the imperious eagerness of the opponents to conquer the minds of the legitimizing [ … ]
China, Taiwan, and the Future of Guatemala
This article was originally published on The Diplomat on June 17, 2024. Over the past year, China has made significant advances in Central America in multiple sectors, in strategic geography ever closer to the United States. It has built that position in countries ruled by governments with both the political [ … ]
The Strategic Value of Taiwan and Stability in Asia for Latin America
This article was originally published on Infobae on June 11, 2024. On June 7, 2024, I had the privilege of participating as a speaker in an event in Miami, Florida organized by the Presidential Mission of Latin America, bringing together three former Latin American presidents, current senior Latin American government [ … ]
Russian Warships, Venezuelan Elections, and a Fabricated Crisis with Guyana in the Caribbean?
This article was originally published on The Policy Spotlight of Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, June 14, 2024. The deployment of Russian warships to the Caribbean is Kabuki theater. For 15 years, a Russia whose international power projection capabilities have deteriorated significantly since the end [ … ]
China-Argentina Space Engagement: Reconciling Science, Sovereignty, and Strategic Risk
This article was originally published in the magazine of the RED CHINA & AMÉRCIA LATINA (REDCAEM) No 40, May 2024 Summary This work examines China-Argentine space collaboration, with a focus on the People’s Republic of China- (PRC) operated deep space radar facility in Neuquén. It argues that in interest of [ … ]

