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Trump’s Asian Security Dilemma
Commentary
President Trump’s upcoming five-country Asian tour takes place amid deepening worries about security trends across the region. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs menac...
By Richard Fontaine
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A Tale of Two Speeches
Commentary
In two widely noticed speeches this week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and President George W. Bush called Americans to a global leadership worthy of the country’s best traditio...
By Richard Fontaine
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Networking Security in Asia
Commentary
The United States faces a dilemma in Asia. It wishes to preserve a balance of power, reinforce the rules-based regional order, avoid conflict, and maintain stable economic rel...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Uses and Misuses of Historical Analogy for North Korea
Amid a steady fusillade of ever more capable rockets from North Korea, and an escalating volley of threats and insults flying between Washington and Pyongyang, the crisis in N...
By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk
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CNAS Event: A Conversation with HASC Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA)
Podcast
HASC Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) sits down with CNAS President Richard Fontaine for a conversation on Russia, the modern threat environment, and how the U.S. military sho...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Trump Can Stop the Four Famines
Commentary
In his first six months as President, Donald Trump has used his platforms to decry and cajole anything or anyone that stands in the way of his campaign promises -- or that he ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Foreign Aid Has an Enormous ROI for the U.S. and Boosts Our National Security. Don't Cut It.
Washington is today embroiled in a debate over foreign aid, and with it the kind of country America wishes to be. President Trump submitted to Congress a budget that slashes f...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Afghan War Is Not Lost
Sixteen years after the United States first sent troops to Afghanistan, U.S. military commanders describe the war there as stalemated. The Trump administration has initiated a...
By Michèle Flournoy & Richard Fontaine
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Time to Lose Your Illusions on North Korea
In launching an intercontinental ballistic missile, North Korea has done what many experts said must not occur, and what President Donald Trump said would not happen. Pyongyan...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS 2017: Keynote Address by Secretary John F. Kelly
Video
Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly takes questions from CNAS President Richard Fontaine – and CNAS’ Twitter followers – on the strategy for keeping America safe....
By Richard Fontaine
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2 Percent Is No Magic Number
When the leaders of NATO’s 28 member countries gather in Brussels on May 25, all eyes will be on U.S. President Donald Trump. Russia, Afghanistan, and questions about America’...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump's First 100 Days and the State of National Security
Podcast
As President Trump closes in on his first 100 days, CNAS President Richard Fontaine and Executive Vice President Shawn Brimley provide recommendations for what the administrat...
By Richard Fontaine, Shawn Brimley & Neal Urwitz
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Mike Pence and rebooting the Australia-US alliance
When Vice President Mike Pence lands in Australia, the last stop on his Asia-Pacific tour, he'll witness a country debating its close ties with the United States. Worries abou...
By Richard Fontaine
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The President Doesn’t Need a Trump Doctrine
Foreign policy doctrine season has come to the nation’s capital. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s forcible response to Bashar Assad’s gas attack in Syria, observers are...
By Richard Fontaine
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Video
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Honeymoon between Trump administration and Putin fading rapidlyBeverley O'Connor speaks to the Centre for a New American Security's Richard Fontaine about two big issues dominating US foreign policy — Syria and North Korea. Watch t...
By Richard Fontaine
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North Korea nuclear threat hits home
It was overshadowed by US missile strikes on the Syrian Air Force, but there was another crisis brewing during President Donald Trump meeting last week with China's Xi Jinping...
By Richard Fontaine
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US airstrike in Syria not meant to do much damage
Video
The U.S. has yet to reach a consensus on its approach to the Syrian crisis, says Richard Fontaine from the Center for a New American Security. Watch the interview at CNBC....
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Middle Kingdom Meets Middle EastIn a new Islamic State video that has undoubtedly caught Beijing’s eye, Uighur militants threaten to “shed blood like rivers” in China, pledge to avenge the oppressed, and bur...
By Richard Fontaine & Michael Singh
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Taiwan’s Answer to Chinese Economic Coercion
Commentary
A Japanese vice minister has become the highest-ranking Japanese official to visit Taiwan since Tokyo severed ties with the island in 1972. Jiro Akama, deputy minister of inte...
By Richard Fontaine
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Congress, Trump need a united front to face down Iran
Iran policy has been one of the most divisive foreign policy issues in recent years. The Obama administration’s nuclear deal passed Congress without a single Republican vote, ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg, Richard Fontaine & Ilan Goldenberg
