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A Chinese intelligence agent has been extradited to the US to face espionage charges
In The News
An alleged spy for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) was arrested in Belgium and extradited to the US on accusations he tried to steal trade secrets from US aviatio...
By Abigail Grace
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China’s grip on electronics manufacturing will be hard to break
In The News
The first floor is all about components: every type of switch, every cable and every screw can be found here, often in bags of thousands. The second floor is filled with circu...
By Gregory C. Allen
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AI experts tell MEPs ban on 'killer robots' is unrealistic
In The News
A panel of defence and artificial intelligence (AI) experts on Wednesday (10 October) poured cold water on the feasibility of an international a ban on autonomous weapons syst...
By Wendy R. Anderson
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Democrats Are Ignoring One Key Voting Group: Veterans
In The News
With control of Congress at stake in next month’s midterm elections, Democrats have a rare opportunity to gain a foothold against President Trump’s Republican Party. But if th...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Inflection point: Army wrestles to strike balance between current and future capability
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The Army is at an inflection point. It’s a statement its top leaders have acknowledged countless times in recent months as they have made the case to begin major investment in...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Syria buffer free of heavy arms as jihadists face deadline
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A planned buffer zone in northwest Syria has been cleared of heavy armaments ahead of time but a new deadline loomed Wednesday for the tougher task of Turkey convincing jihadi...
By Nicholas Heras
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Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’
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The future of human performance is a research race, and the U.S. shouldn’t take its lead for granted, the DIA director says. The U.S. military’s top intelligence officer is in...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Google announces withdrawal from DoD’s JEDI cloud contract
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Google has pulled out of the competitive Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract. A spokesperson for the tech giant said that they couldn’t be sure that JEDI wo...
By Robert O. Work
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With Haley’s departure, senior Trump ranks feature even fewer women and minorities
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As an Indian American woman, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has occupied an unusual position in an administration whose broad lack of diversity at the highest levels of the feder...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Europe steps up drive to exempt Swift from Iran sanctions
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European finance ministers will try to persuade the Trump administration not to cut off Iran’s access to Swift, the global financial messaging service, in meetings with Steven...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Detention of Interpol’s Meng Hongwei ‘harms confidence in Chinese leaders of global bodies’
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The disappearance and detention of the Chinese president of the global policing body Interpol as part of Beijing’s anticorruption drive is an unprecedented move that will shak...
By Abigail Grace
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Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China Misdirection
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Near the end of September, before the United Nations, President Donald Trump leveled an extraordinary charge: China was attempting to “meddle” and “interfere” in the upcoming ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Made in China 2025: Xi Jinping's plan to turn China into the AI world leader
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Eleven trillion renminbi: it's a number that's hard to comprehend. In Australian dollars that's about $2.41 trillion — far bigger than Australia's entire economy — and it's th...
By Elsa B. Kania
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The Next U.S. Clash With China Will Be All About Iran’s Oil
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As if they needed it, U.S.-China relations face a new flashpoint on Nov. 4, when Washington’s new sanctions on Iran take full effect with the stated objective of cutting Tehra...
By Peter Harrell
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It’s No Longer Just a Trade War Between the U.S. and China
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The U.S. confrontation with China that has been ramping up over the past year due to heightened trade tensions, military showdowns, and diplomatic ill will escalated to new le...
By Elsa B. Kania
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US and Chinese warships came perilously close to collision, and it’s probably going to keep happening
The grainy surveillance photos look like something from the Cold War. But they were captured early this week, when a US Navy destroyer had to change course to avoid colliding ...
By Ely Ratner
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CNAS report examines impact of heavy gear load on soldiers
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The ground troops of the U.S. armed forces are carrying more and more gear. A review by the Center for a New American Security says that soldiers in recent wars have carried 9...
By Paul Scharre
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South Korea reveals plan to break stalemate in U.S.-North Korea talks
South Korea is proposing that the United States hold off on a demand for an inventory of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and accept the verified closure of a key North Korean nu...
By Duyeon Kim
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The Pentagon Used To Hide US Troops In Syria. Now It's Posting Videos Of Them On Twitter.
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This time last year, the US military was refusing to admit that there were four times as many troops in Syria as it had disclosed previously, insisting they were serving as te...
By Nicholas Heras
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CNAS Defense Program Welcomes Greg Grant as Adjunct Senior Fellow
Press Release
Washington, October 2 -- The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Greg Grant has joined the Center as an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Defense program...
