This week in The Red Report:

• Why is the CCP obsessed with “China-Shedding”?

• Is AI accelerating economic nationalism?

• The Prelude to US-China Negotiations

• Do androids dream of electric Xi?

• How Chinese satellites support US adversaries

2430 Group Co-Founder Tom Lyons talks to the The Washington Times’ Threat Status podcast about the People's Republic of China's ongoing campaign of intellectual property theft. During the episode, Lyons explained how the PRC uses a sophisticated blend of coercion, fraud, and state-sponsored economic espionage to acquire American innovation. These activities directly undermine US economic stability and national security by eroding technological competitiveness and threatening American jobs. Lyons emphasized that small businesses, the primary engines of US innovation, are frequently targeted and remain uniquely vulnerable to these predatory practices.

2430 Group Co-Founder Tom Lyons testified on April 22, 2026, before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled, “Stealth Stealing: China’s Ongoing Theft of U.S. Innovation.” The People’s Republic of China acquires US technology and other intellectual property via coercion, fraud, and espionage. This state-sponsored activity damages the US economy and national security, costing jobs and economic and technological competitiveness. Small businesses, which drive a significant share of US innovation, remain especially vulnerable to the PRC's attacks. 2430 Group equips these firms with the tools to identify risks and protect their technologies in an increasingly contested global environment.

This week in The Red Report:

1. Talent wars

2. China risk is more than compliance risk

3. How are US tariffs helping Chinese exports?

4. Why are Chinese tech companies rushing to IPOs?

5. What does Anthropic’s Mythos mean for China?

This week in The Red Report:

1. China’s Lobster Problem

2. Defending Main Street

3. The Long Slide toward Decoupling

4. The Geopolitics of Science

5. IP theft and the threat of denaturalization

2430 Group Co-Founder Tom Lyons testified on March 25, 2026 before the House Committee on Small Business in a hearing on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) threats to Main Street. The People’s Republic of China’s program of economic coercion and intellectual property theft costs US companies trillions of dollars in lost revenue every year. Small businesses constitute the overwhelming majority of innovation in the United States and thus bear the disproportionate burden of China’s attacks. 2430 Group equips those firms to defend themselves.

This week in The Red Report:

1. What does the new Five-Year Plan tell us about China’s future?

2. How is war in Iran changing US-China relations?

3. Uncertainty awaits: shipping skepticism and new tariffs

4. What does a crackdown on “Singapore washing” mean for US tech?

5. The Rise of Autonomous Espionage Infrastructure

This week in The Red Report:

1. Why Iran matters to China

2. How to plan for the unplannable

3. China predicts a “new world order” amid reports of economic malaise

4. China Builds AI Reach Even as Limits Remain

5. Is the United States getting wise to corporate espionage?

2430 Group is mentioned in a an article by The Times of Israel about the risks of importing Chinese vehicles on November 26, 2025.

This document is a categorized reference list of the major laws, regulations, and frameworks that shape the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Hong Kong, and Russia’s contemporary national-security and counter-espionage environment.

RedNote, a short-form video and augmented reality platform better known in Mandarin as xiaohongshu, or “little red book,” has rapidly gained traction in recent years as an alternative to the video blogging service TikTok, especially among younger users drawn to its immersive alternate reality features and tailored content feeds. Like TikTok, RedNote offers algorithmically driven entertainment; however, its underlying infrastructure and legal obligations differ in critical ways. While TikTok has faced scrutiny over its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and its opaque data practices, RedNote is even more closely aligned with the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) surveillance architecture. Promoted as a creative social app, RedNote conforms to PRC policy of surveillance-by-design, requiring extensive data extraction, non-transparent content moderation, and legally mandated state access to user information. This closer look examines how RedNote operates within—and extends—the global reach of China’s digital governance model.

The author, Christian Ryan, is an open-source national security researcher and a Research Fellow at Trefoil Strategies Ltd., a Pittsburgh-based risk consultancy.

2430 Group’s Director, Glenn Chafetz describes a 21st Cold War with China in a May 20, 2025 article in Publications—Irregular Warfare Center. Chafetz contends that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) centrally directs the entirety of its party-state-economic machinery, including its putatively private companies, against the decentralized, civilian assets of the United States’ commercial sector, critical infrastructure, and civil society. The US fails to adequately respond or deter China because the attacks are incremental and hard to detect; the private sector lacks the ability and incentives to defend itself; and neither the USG nor the private sector adequately capture the risks of inaction.