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Trump stokes backlash with threat to use military against protesters
President Trump’s threat to deploy active-duty military to quell protests across the country has raised concerns about the appropriateness of using U.S. armed forces to bolste...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Use of medical helicopter to target protesters is under investigation, National Guard says
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On the battlefield, the roar of helicopter blades paired with a Red Cross is salvation for wounded troops and civilians. But the thwomping blades of military helicopters, inc...
By Dr. Kyleanne Hunter
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Americans losing faith in elections as Trump discredits voting systems
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The diatribes are as unnerving and unrelenting as they are untrue: An incumbent president warning that the nation’s voting systems are cauldrons for fraud and ripe for rigging...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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U.S.-China Disputes Growing Harder to Solve
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President Donald Trump’s decision to downgrade relations with Hong Kong shows how his clashes with China increasingly feature ideological differences that are harder to resolv...
By Peter Harrell
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The Turks Shot Down A Russian Bomber In 2015. Now Russia’s Buying New Planes That Can Defend Themselves
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The Russian air force is buying new Su-34 fighter-bombers. The two-seat, twin-engine warplanes will replace aging Su-24 bombers—one of which the Turkish air force shot down ne...
By Samuel Bendett
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Trump announces unprecedented action against China
President Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Beijing Friday, naming misdeeds that range from espionage to the violation of Hong Kong's freedoms, and announced a slew...
By Richard Fontaine
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As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic values
The setting was the Rose Garden. The topic was China. And for President Trump, the goal of the White House event Friday was to condemn the communist nation as a threat to demo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Australian government asks China for same reduction in trade barriers as US
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The Morrison government has asked China to grant Australia the same reduction in bureaucratic trade barriers that Beijing has promised the United States. The requ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Inhofe, Reed back new military fund to confront China
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As the U.S. Congress hardens against Beijing, two key lawmakers publicly added their support for a new military fund to boost deterrence against China in the Pacific, virtuall...
By Eric Sayers
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European Defense and ‘Strategic Autonomy’ Are Also Coronavirus Victims
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The coronavirus has upended the best-laid plans and priorities of many, including the European Union. But one of the biggest casualties may be European efforts to build a more...
By Jim Townsend
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As veterans face heightened unemployment risk, ‘Call of Duty’ lends a hand
Over the last nine weeks, more than 38.6 million Americans have filed unemployment claims as the covid-19 pandemic continues to impact the U.S. economy. Massive layoffs due to...
By Nathalie Grogan
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China in the global spotlight as its annual political congress gets underway
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The huge and highly choreographed set piece of the Chinese political calendar got underway Friday with around 3,000 Communist Party officials and military delegates descending...
By Kristine Lee
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Cold War 2.0: How Trump's Attacks on China Could Backfire
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In September of 1946, Nikolai Novikov, the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., penned what would become known as the Novikov Telegram, which assessed the foreign policy of Presiden...
By Kristine Lee
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Surveillance-tech restrictions stripped from Uyghur bill could end up in NDAA
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The Senate’s passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act was the culmination of a months-long effort to hold Beijing accountable for a sweeping crackdown against its minorit...
By Martijn Rasser
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Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen riding high into second term as Trump fights China
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged China’s Xi Jinping to “find a way to coexist” with the island’s democratic government, as she started her second term riding high with a...
By Ashley Feng
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For most of Afghanistan war, U.S. ‘never really fought to win,’ Trump declares
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President Trump on Monday declared that the United States had “never really fought to win” in Afghanistan, except early in the nearly two-decade-long war, making a sweeping st...
By Richard Fontaine
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How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—Easy
In 1937, the year that George Orwell was shot in the neck while fighting fascists in Spain, Julian Chen was born in Shanghai. His parents, a music teacher and a chemist, enrol...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Pandemic Shatters World Order, Sowing Anger and Mistrust
While the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across much of the globe, political and business leaders are already starting to think about what the world might look like once th...
By Richard Fontaine
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China emerges as potential strain on US-Israel relationship
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Increasingly close ties between China and Israel risk straining the special relationship Israel has with the U.S., especially as Washington ramps up its feud with Beijing over...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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When it comes to coronavirus response, superpowers may need to study smaller nations
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The coronavirus pandemic has upended the international hierarchy. Three of the world’s great powers — the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia — have the largest and m...
By Van Jackson
