On January 1, 2024, Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attended the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Addis Ababa. This agreement allows Ethiopia to use a Somaliland port, providing the landlocked nation access to the Gulf of Aden. This MoU has caused heightened tensions in the already […]
The 2023 US Intelligence Community Annual Threat Assessment provided key insights into China’s national security ambitions at the start of 2023. Written by the US Intelligence Community as its yearly threat assessment report to Congress, this document analyzes China’s objectives, activities, and military capabilities. According to the Annual Threat Assessment, China’s national security ambitions […]
Navanti’s data collection and analysis are based on networks of on-the-ground researchers from all walks of life: journalists, academics, and humanitarian workers, to name a few. Our analysts also keep abreast of open source reports to inform their work. Below, these analysts have summarized and contextualized the most important pieces they have read and listened […]
A complex and precarious triangle of interdependence between China, Taiwan, and the U.S. for production and innovation of semiconductor chips – powering everything from smart phones to smart cities – hangs in the balance. On October 7, we witnessed a drastic shift in national security and trade policy with China, reversing a course of one-sided […]
Countries of Central Asia announced their official positions on the “Taiwan issue” by Madi Tazhikenov The situation around Taiwan, which China considers its territory under the “One China” policy, and not a separate island state, escalated in the first days of August 2022. This occurred when the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy […]