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Christopher Soelistyo

Kicking away the Chinese ladder

Since early 2018, the United States has imposed a series of tariffs and sanctions on China in a bid to rectify the yawning trade...

Christopher Soelistyo

Artificial Intelligence: The Technology of Social Control?

Introduction The rapid spread of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020 brought a massive shock to societies and economies across the world. As...

Christopher Soelistyo

Yemen, or the British arms sales we prefer to ignore

As American police fought to quell the nationwide protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd, on June 2, Emily Thornberry gave the...

Christopher Soelistyo

Militants: Pakistan's Catch-22

This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in December 2019: https://uclpimedia.com/online/militants-pakistans-catch-22 It has...

Christopher Soelistyo

Militarised AI: A New Frontier of Warfare?

This article was originally published on UCL Pi Media in April 2019 under the title "Militarised AI: A Sinister Deus Ex Machina":...

Christopher Soelistyo

Nuclear Weapons: The Logic of Strategic Superiority

(This is a re-post of an article that I wrote in February 2019, heavily influenced by Matthew Kroenig's book "The Logic of American...