Press
Showing 2201-2220 of 7412 Items
-
A bombshell recording in Iran threatens to complicate nuclear negotiations in Vienna
In The News
The bombshell leak of an audio recording with Iran's foreign minister has exposed bitter internal divisions in Iran, threatening to complicate delicate negotiations between Te...
By Ilan Goldenberg
-
Russia's unlucky aircraft carrier is getting ready for its return to action
In The News
Perhaps no aircraft carrier has been as mocked or as troubled as Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only carrier and the sole ship of its class. Meant to usher in a new era for Sovie...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
-
Congressional efforts to repeal Iraq war authorization raise questions about Iranian proxies
In The News
A House push to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) has picked up support across the political spectrum as President Joe Biden begins taking signifi...
By Richard Fontaine
-
The Legacy of Wartime Atrocities Still Loom Over Asian Alliances
In The News
Lee Yong-soo seemed to shiver with frustration as an activist wheeled her out of the Seoul Central District Court in a wheelchair. The 92-year-old Korean woman, who survived J...
By Jacob Stokes
-
Biden Looks to Progressive for Key Human Rights Post
In The News
U.S. President Joe Biden is close to nominating a prominent progressive foreign-policy expert to be one of the State Department’s top human rights envoys, a move that would el...
By Richard Fontaine
-
Digital Yuan Gives China a New Tool to Strike Back at Critics
In The News
Even as China grows in economic and military power, perhaps nothing reveals Beijing’s weaknesses more than the U.S.’s control of the global financial system.China has recently...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
-
Russia Plans ‘Flying Minefield’ To Counter Drone Attacks
In The News
The Russian military has released new details of its use in Syria of small kamikaze drones, known as loitering munitions, made by a Kalashnikov subsidiary. The drone maker is ...
By Samuel Bendett
-
Does Big Tech Hurt U.S. National Security?
In The News
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces on Big Tech and U.S. national security. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of expert...
By Kara Frederick
-
China and Russia Turn Deeper Ties into a Military Challenge for Biden
Deepening military and diplomatic cooperation between Russia and China is worrying U.S. defense planners, who fear the two frenemies that share military technology and many fo...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
-
New Huawei fears over Dutch mobile eavesdropping
In The News
Huawei was able to eavesdrop on all conversations taking place on one of the Netherlands' largest mobile networks, according to a Dutch newspaper report. Huawei staff both in ...
By Martijn Rasser
-
After troops leave Afghanistan, U.S. will face challenges maintaining counterterrorism capability
In The News
The military and intelligence agencies are racing to refine plans for countering extremist groups in Afghanistan following President Biden’s planned troop withdrawal, but curr...
By Lisa Curtis
-
Biden’s relationship with Israel shaping up to be less cozy than his predecessors’
In The News
The current Iran nuclear talks mark a defining moment for President Biden and the new, less-cozy relationship that is shaping up between Biden and Israel, its longtime leader ...
By Kaleigh Thomas
-
On foreign policy decisions, Biden faces drag of pragmatism
In The News
President Joe Biden this past week found himself in search of a foreign policy sweet spot: somewhere between pulling a screeching U-turn on four years of Trumpism and cautious...
By Lisa Curtis
-
US Policy Adviser Rebuts Peter Thiel: Bitcoin Won’t Undermine USD
In The News
A member of a Congressional group tasked with looking at the national security implications of the U.S.’s economic relationship with China said Thursday that bitcoin (BTC, -1....
By Yaya J. Fanusie
-
U.S. Slaps Wide-Ranging Sanctions on Moscow—but Stops Short of Killer Blow
The Biden administration announced a sweeping package of sanctions on Russia on Thursday, including further restrictions on Moscow’s ability to tap capital markets and fresh d...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
-
EU mulls end to extradition treaties with China over Hong Kong electoral reform, but not every member state agrees
In The News
Under pressure from the United States and reeling from a blitz of Chinese sanctions, the European Union is preparing new measures to punish Beijing for sweeping electoral refo...
By Martijn Rasser
-
U.S., NATO troops pulling out of Afghanistan will raise concerns for India, say experts
In The News
In the aftermath of the U.S. and the NATO withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, India will have tremendous concern on the resurgence of the Taliban and its territory being ...
By Lisa Curtis
-
Biden administration imposes significant economic sanctions on Russia over cyberspying, efforts to influence presidential election
In The News
The Biden administration on Thursday imposed the first significant sanctions targeting the Russian economy in several years in order to punish the Kremlin for a cyberespionage...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Edward Fishman
-
France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one
In The News
A French nuclear-powered submarine severely damaged by fire last year has been saved from the scrapyard -- by cutting it in two and welding the salvageable half to part of ano...
By CDR Thomas Shugart, USN
-
‘Support Our Troops’ No Longer Automatic as Trust in Military Falls
In The News
Super Bowl flyovers, TV commercials celebrating veterans, yellow-ribbon bumper stickers: It’s long been reflexive for Americans of all political persuasions to “support our tr...
By James Golby
