The Aspen Strategy Group, Munich Security Conference, and Mercator Institute for China Studies released "Bridging the Gap: Priorities for Transatlantic China Policy" on February 18, 2023.

Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed moment, and unique in that a major nation-state had engaged in coordinated, convergent digital and physical attacks in an effort to conquer a neighboring country. Leaders will draw lessons from this conflict for years, but one is already clear: the ability to deliver cyber defense assistance must be a key national security capability.