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Strongmen who got cozy with Trump get the cold shoulder from Biden
The Biden administration has zinged Russia and China over human rights and alleged thuggery against their neighbors, cut off some arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and stiff-armed T...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking championsOnce a month, senior executives of Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. fly to Beijing for a flurry of meetings with China's top economic management bodies. They focus on the compa...
By Martijn Rasser
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
80,000 Russian Troops Remain at Ukraine Border as U.S. and NATO Hold ExercisesRussia has withdrawn only a few thousand troops from the border with Ukraine, senior Biden administration officials said, despite signals from Moscow last month that it was di...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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In The News
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
US eyes using Japan's submarines to 'choke' Chinese navyFor all its massive military buildup, China has some weaknesses that are hard to overcome. One of them is geography. "When you look at China's submarine bases, every single on...
By Tom Shugart
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Australia Draws A Line on ChinaAustralian defense officials and politicians alike are striking an increasingly hawkish tone on China. This week, it was revealed that a former top general warned his troops l...
By Tom Shugart
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Is Washington prepared for a geopolitical ‘tech race’?When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summ...
By Jordan Schneider
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. RealityRussia has created a new robotic combat unit of Uran-9 unmanned ground vehicles, which have been battle-tested in Syria, though with mixed results. It’s also developing an exp...
By Samuel Bendett
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A bombshell recording in Iran threatens to complicate nuclear negotiations in Vienna
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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
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Russia's unlucky aircraft carrier is getting ready for its return to action
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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
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Congressional efforts to repeal Iraq war authorization raise questions about Iranian proxies
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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
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The Legacy of Wartime Atrocities Still Loom Over Asian Alliances
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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
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Biden Looks to Progressive for Key Human Rights Post
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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
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Digital Yuan Gives China a New Tool to Strike Back at Critics
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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
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Russia Plans ‘Flying Minefield’ To Counter Drone AttacksThe 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
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In The News
Technology & National Security
Does Big Tech Hurt U.S. National Security?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
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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
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In The News
Technology & National Security
New Huawei fears over Dutch mobile eavesdroppingHuawei 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
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After troops leave Afghanistan, U.S. will face challenges maintaining counterterrorism capability
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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
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Biden’s relationship with Israel shaping up to be less cozy than his predecessors’
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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
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On foreign policy decisions, Biden faces drag of pragmatism
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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
