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Military faces another potential coronavirus toll: Budget cuts
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As the novel coronavirus has swept the globe, Pentagon officials have scrambled to adjust everything from basic training to submarine deployments to prevent the pandemic from ...
By Robert F. Hale
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Chip titan TSMC caught in crossfire between US and China
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Not even the coronavirus pandemic is stopping the vast expansion plans of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. In the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, in tropical sunshin...
By Martijn Rasser
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For Europe's strongmen, pandemic is opportunity and risk
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Europe's strongmen leaders want to use the coronavirus pandemic to tighten their grip while touting their prowess in overcoming crises, but their authority risks being badly u...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Great Decoupling
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The U.S. ambassador on the spot in an Asian economic powerhouse put it bluntly in a cable to the secretary of state in Washington: Don’t cut them off. Give them some “economic...
By Ashley Feng
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New Russian Robot Can Climb Stairs And Blow Up Bombs
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The Syrian civil war is nearly a decade-long tragedy, a geopolitical mess, and a proving ground for Russian military technology. Among that technology is a new iteration of th...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chinese military action plausible as its leaders feel backed into a corner
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China’s anger at taking international blame for the coronavirus pandemic has raised the likelihood that Beijing will order a rare assault against a smaller neighbor, U.S. obse...
By Eric Sayers
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Anja Manuel Discusses U.S.-China Relations on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
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Anja Manuel, former US State Department official, Director of the Aspen Security Forum, author of This Brave New World: China, India and the U.S. She discussed the rise in US-...
By Anja Manuel
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China’s Disinformation Campaign Targets Virus, Researcher Says
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An army of bot accounts linked to an alleged Chinese government-backed propaganda campaign is spreading disinformation on social media about coronavirus and other topics, incl...
By Elsa B. Kania
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FBI probes Mexican, European firms over Venezuela oil trading-sources
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The FBI is probing several Mexican and European companies allegedly involved in trading Venezuelan oil as it gathers information for a U.S. Treasury Department inquiry into po...
By Peter Harrell
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Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era
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Global trade watchers breathed a sigh of relief on January 15, 2020. After two years of threats, tariffs and tweets, there was finally a truce in the trade war between the U....
By Anja Manuel
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Veteran unemployment up to nearly 12 percent amid coronavirus crisis
Veterans unemployment jumped to nearly 12 percent in April as the country’s total jobless rate rose to its highest levels since the Great Depression because of the ongoing cor...
By Nathalie Grogan
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Democrats demand intel on coronavirus origins
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Top Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration should share with Congress the allegedly “enormous” evidence showing that the coronavirus sprang from a Chinese lab. Oth...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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US military poised for post-pandemic shift
The novel coronavirus pandemic may soon lead to big changes in the U.S. military. COVID-19 has torn apart U.S. society so much that it is redefining national security, defens...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Chinese propaganda tactics shifting to elevate, amplify Russian disinformation
Chinese Communist Party tactics have shifted to imitate classic Russian disinformation campaigns, as well as amplify bogus stories from Moscow to pin the blame for coronavirus...
By Kristine Lee
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Robots Will Replace Soldiers In Combat, Says Russia
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For Russia, the question of robots taking over the role of soldiers on the battlefield is a matter of when, not if. “Living fighters will gradually begin to be replaced by the...
By Samuel Bendett
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Who is winning the China-US race to run the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic?
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In 2018, President Xi Jinping said China would “take an active part in leading the reform of the global governance system”, as part of an effort to build “a community with a s...
By Kristine Lee
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Matthew Pottinger faced Communist China’s intimidation as a reporter. He’s now at the White House shaping Trump’s hard line policy toward Beijing.
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In February, as President Trump was projecting confidence that China’s Xi Jinping had the coronavirus under control, his deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger rec...
By Ely Ratner
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Jack Ma: The billionaire trying to stop coronavirus (and fix China's reputation)
The richest man in China opened his own Twitter account last month, in the middle of the Covid-19 outbreak. So far, every one of his posts has been devoted to his unrivalled c...
By Ashley Feng
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Power is ‘up for grabs’: Behind China’s plan to shape the future of next-generation tech
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China is set to release an ambitious 15-year blueprint that will lay out its plans to set the global standards for the next-generation of technologies. The move could have wid...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Praised For Curbing COVID-19, New Zealand's Leader Eases Country's Strict Lockdown
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With many countries reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand is proving a model of recovery and is lifting part of its strict lockdown. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern h...
By Van Jackson
