On February 13, the Washington Post published an article that cited an interview with long-time Jamestown contributor Pavel Felgenhauer, who discussed Russia's steadfast military calculus in northwestern Syria despite growing Western criticism.

A February 13 article in the World Tribune cites remarks by Senior Fellow Willy Lam regarding the appointment of Xia Baolong to oversee Hong Kong affairs for the central Chinese government.

Jamestown President Glen E. Howard was interviewed by NPR journalist Michele Keleman on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Belarus, and the country's strategic position in Eastern Europe. Released on February 1, Howard said that Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka wishes to remain neutral in... MORE

Jamestown Fellow Sergey Sukhankin was quoted in a New York Times article today on growing Russian influence in Africa. Specifically, Russia is expanding its ties to Mozambique, which is facing an Islamist insurgency in its northern province. Kremlin-linked Wagner Group private military contractors (PMCs) have... MORE

Jamestown Non-Resident Fellow Matthew Brazil and Deputy Staff Director of the Congress-Executive Commission on China Peter Mattis' new book on Chinese intelligence, Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer, was prominently covered in an article posted by VOA China. The article highlights the importance of the book, which... MORE

Jamestown Non-Resident Fellow Matthew Brazil appeared on the online television show China Uncensored to discuss his new book, Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer, co-written with Deputy Staff Director of the Congress-Executive Commission on China Peter Mattis. The episode discusses the book's research, explaining that Chinese spies have become... MORE

Jamestown Foundation Board Member Michael Carpenter was interviewed by Visegrad Insight. In the interview, Carpenter speaks at length about Belarus and its relations with both Russia and the West. Among other major points, he states that "the worst thing we [in the West] can do... MORE

Jamestown Senior Fellow Michael W.S. Ryan was interviewed on November 2nd on the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and what that means for the future of the terrorist organization. Ryan remarks that al-Baghdadi's death is a major blow to the Islamic State, having... MORE

Jamestown Foundation President Glen Howard was quoted by Polygraph.info in an article on Russian disinformation concerning Zbigniew Brzezinski. Howard is quoted as saying that the quote that Russian media had attributed to Brzezinski was "a vast distortion," adding that the stylistic differences between the quote... MORE

Jamestown Fellow Jacob Zenn's recent piece, "A Shia 'Boko Haram' Insurgency or Iranian Proxy in Nigeria? Not So Fast," published in Terrorism Monitor, has been quoted in an article published by the BBC. The widely-read British news organization reported on the decision to label the Islamic Movement... MORE