Issue Brief Intercepted As elephant ivory and rhino horn seizure numbers begin to rebound following pandemic shutdowns, wildlife trafficking networks are adapting and evolving to...
Issue Brief Buffered Extraction As global demand for critical metals like cobalt, copper, and gold rises in response to a burgeoning green economy, Chinese enterprises are...
Issue Brief Faulty Transmission For years, the Myanmar military has relied on back-alley trade with global entities to support its brutally violent campaign of terror against...
Issue Brief Sea Shells The global commercial fishing industry generates sales worth $141 billion each year, with an annual production of over 90 million tonnes of...
Issue Brief Everybody’s Business In this brief, we map the contours of the Chinese agricultural and industrial sectors and identify nine goods produced in disproportionately high...
Issue Brief Who’s Controlling the Distant Water Squid Fishing Fleet? In order to better understand squid fishing in the Southeast Pacific Ocean, C4ADS analyzed publicly available Automatic Identification System (AIS) data compiled...
Issue Brief Sold Out Analyzing 600+ cases of bonded labor in India from 2002-2020, this Brief demonstrates that bonded labor cases occurred in almost every industry...
Issue Brief Open Gates This brief is a tool to enable foreign universities, corporate entities, and governments to mitigate their exposure to China’s defense ecosystem.
Issue Brief Shared Skies Shared Skies offers examples of data-backed linkages between wildlife trafficking and other illicit activities and introduces a framework of five levels of...