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The Low Road: Charting China's Digital Expansion
As Beijing tightens control of the Internet within its own borders, what consequences lie ahead for people living under other authoritarian regimes and fragile democracies?...
By Kara Frederick, Daniel Kliman & Ely Ratner
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The Rise of Municipal Ransomware
Last month’s coordinated ransomware attacks against 23 cities in Texas reflect a troubling trend for America’s cities: bad actors are addicted to the payoff. In the 30 years s...
By Kara Frederick
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Welcome to the New Phase of US-China Tech Competition
It came without a breaking news alert or presidential tweet, but the technological competition with China entered a new phase last month. Several developments quietly heralded...
By Ashley Feng & Lorand Laskai
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The Key Role Pakistan Is Playing In U.S.-Taliban Talks
A bomb parked under the preacher's pulpit in a mosque likely had a high-profile target: a brother of the Taliban leader. It was seen by the Taliban as a warning to stop their ...
By Stephen Tankel
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Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI & China with Helen Toner & Elsa Kania
Discussions of Chinese artificial intelligence frequently center around the trope of a U.S.-China arms race. On this month’s FLI podcast, we’re moving beyond the arms race nar...
By Elsa B. Kania & Helen Toner
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How to Reform IEEPA
Over the weekend, President Trump cited a 1977 statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as providing the legal authority he would need to carry throug...
By Peter Harrell
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Women in National Security: Emma Moore
Emma Moore joins the CNAS Women in National Security podcast mini-series on human capital to discuss changing the requirements for national service....
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Emma Moore
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In Military-Civil Fusion, China is Learning Lessons from the United States and Starting to Innovate
China’s national strategy of “military-civil fusion” (军民融合) is provoking some anxiety in Washington.1 There are concerns the United States could be challenged, or even outrigh...
By Elsa B. Kania
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What would John McCain do?
A year ago, the world lost Sen. John McCain. The global response to his passing — largely grief and appreciation from allies and democratic activists, mostly silence from adve...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Balkans Will Pay a Heavy Price for China's Global Ambitions
Since President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan in 2013, framing it as an overland strategy to connect Asia to Europe, China’s inroads in the W...
By Karina Barbesino & Kristine Lee
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Here’s How Trump Should Have Approached Greenland
The news that U.S. President Donald Trump was pushing to purchase Greenland probably didn’t take its government entirely by surprise. The United States has long harbored desig...
By Jim Townsend
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Iran Under Sanctions: A Scramble For Cancer Care And Blame To Go Around
At a cancer treatment center in Iran's capital of Tehran, a doctor's fight to treat her cancer patients has become harder. As U.S. sanctions sink in, the flow of medicine and ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Every Marine a Blue-Haired Quasi-Rifleperson?
All the U.S. military services suffer a shortage of competent and experienced cyber talent. But with a tiny pool of eligible candidates willing to do work for the Department o...
By Emma Moore & Nina Kollars
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The Pentagon's IG Cautions Trump to Not Let ISIS Rebuild in Syria
Nick Heras joins Ian Masters to discuss the possibility of an ISIS resurgence in Syria and the Pentagon's options to prevent it. Listen to the full conversation on KPFK LA's ...
By Nicholas Heras
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What Would a Larger Chinese Presence Mean for the Middle East?
The Middle East has emerged as a new theater of U.S.-China great power competition. Today, America’s military presence in the region coupled with its strong diplomatic relatio...
By Daniel Kliman
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Perceptions of the Military Community
Sharpening America’s strategic edge and sustaining the U.S. military advantage is about more than technology and budgets. Crucially, it is also about people: the soldiers, sai...
By Kayla M. Williams
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How China's Military Is Becoming Stronger
The PRC claims that its policy for national defense is inherently defensive. However, the scope and scale of what the PLA may be called upon to defend is expanding, motivated ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Counterterrorism Lessons for the Digital Disinformation Fight
Key lessons in countering cyber operations may be found in counterterrorism operations. Kara Frederick, associate fellow at the CNAS Technology and National Security Program, ...
By Kara Frederick
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A Conversation with Maggie Feldman-Piltch and #NatSecGirlSquad
#NatSecGirlSquad founder and Unicorn Strategies managing director Maggie Feldman-Piltch joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the importance of competent div...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Maggie Feldman-Piltch
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Weaponizing Biotech: How China’s Military Is Preparing for a ‘New Domain of Warfare’
Under Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy, the PLA is sponsoring research on gene editing, human performance enhancement, and more. We may be on the verge of a brave new...
By Elsa B. Kania & Wilson VornDick