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Time for Congress to Establish a U.S. Digital Development Fund
Commentary
As impeachment deliberations roil Washington, Congress will be tempted to look inward and dial back on efforts to address the challenge China poses to American security, prosp...
By Daniel Kliman
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Why the United States Needs a Digital Development Fund
Commentary
What the executive branch and Congress can do to counter China’s expanding digital footprint across the developing world....
By Daniel Kliman
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What Would a Larger Chinese Presence Mean for the Middle East?
Commentary
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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America should apply Cold War lessons to China: Compete hard, hold fast to our values
Commentary
As global stock markets gyrate in response to mounting economic tensions between Washington and Beijing, the specter of a U.S.-China Cold War looms large. The intensifying riv...
By Daniel Kliman
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Don’t be Fooled by China’s Belt and Road Rebrand
Commentary
This is a pivotal week for China as President Xi Jinping welcomes roughly 40 world leaders to Beijing to participate in the second Belt and Road forum. The Belt and Road, Xi’s...
By Daniel Kliman
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To Compete with China, Get the New U.S. Development Finance Corporation Right
Commentary
By Dan Kliman: China’s economic statecraft advances its broader vision of a future defined by great power spheres of influence, rigged economic interactions, and creeping auth...
By Daniel Kliman
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On Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for America and the opportunity to serve in the Navy Reserve
Commentary
I lead a double life. Most of the month, I’m a national security expert in Washington, D.C., offering my views on how the United States can compete with China to shape the cou...
By Daniel Kliman
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Leverage the new US International Development Finance Corporation to compete with China
Commentary
The United States has a unique opportunity to up its game in the global economic competition with China. In early October, even as Democrats and Republicans in the Senate enga...
By Daniel Kliman
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For Japan, a Winning Formula is Cyber Defense and Innovation Offense
The already great and increasing importance of the cyber domain in strategic competition makes the need for Japan to advance its cyber-security and technology entrepreneurship...
By Krista Auchenbach & Daniel Kliman
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Defence innovation is critical for the future of the Australia–US alliance
Commentary
The outcome of the recent AUSMIN meeting—the annual gathering of the secretaries of state and defence from the United States and the foreign and defence ministers from Austral...
By Daniel Kliman & Brendan Thomas-Noone
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China Dreams of America Alone
Commentary
As the prospect of a U.S.-China economic confrontation grows more likely by the day, Beijing takes comfort in the ongoing tensions between the United States and its allies tha...
By Daniel Kliman & Abigail Grace
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How the Five Eyes Can Harness Commercial Innovation
Commentary
Earlier this year, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand – which along with the United States are members of the “Five Eyes” alliance – came together to collec...
By Daniel Kliman & Brendan Thomas-Noone
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The China Challenge
Commentary
[remarks as prepared for delivery at the CNAS Annual Conference, June 21, 2018] [Ely Ratner] Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for being here today. My name is Ely Ratner...
By Ely Ratner, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Daniel Kliman
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Now is the time to take DIUx global
Commentary
The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental — the Pentagon’s signature effort to engage commercial technology startups ― is primed to go global. In fact, DIUx could become a key ...
By Daniel Kliman & Brendan Thomas-Noone
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On China’s New Silk Road, Democracy Pays A Toll
Commentary
Great power competition is back. And China is now combining its vast economic resources with a muscular presence on the global stage. One of Beijing’s key efforts is the Belt ...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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U.S. talks trade with China amid broader strategic disengagement
Commentary
The Trump administration’s senior economic team just wrapped up talks in Beijing to address rising U.S.–China tensions. These talks appear to have amounted largely to an excha...
By Daniel Kliman
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With Trump economic crackdown, a new era in U.S.–China relations
Commentary
The Trump administration announced today a plan to levy investment restrictions and roughly $60 billion worth of tariffs on China in response to its widespread violation of U....
By Daniel Kliman
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America's Economic Future Hinges on Its Partnership with Asia
Commentary
Nearly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration has started to craft a strategic narrative for its approach to Asia. This is atypical: it took Barack Obama ne...
By Richard Fontaine & Daniel Kliman
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Expanding US-India Geoeconomic Cooperation Amid China’s Belt and Road Initiative
The United States and India have an opportunity to co-define and co-implement a geoeconomic vision for the Indo-Pacific, based on shared values of freedom and transparency. Ho...
By Daniel Kliman & Manpreet Singh Anand
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Trump's NSS takes a harder line on China
If translated into sustained action, the Trump administration's National Security Strategy will mark a departure from decades of U.S. policy, reframing China as a great power ...
By Daniel Kliman
