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Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era
In The News
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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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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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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CNAS Technology Alliance Project Announces API and MERICS Partnership with Support from Schmidt Futures
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The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce a partnership with the Asia Pacific Initiative (API) and the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)...
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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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CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program Launches New Initiative: Unfit: Addressing the Military's Eligibility Crisis
The CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program today announced the launch of “Unfit: Addressing the Military's Eligibility Crisis,” an initiative examining the national secu...
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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
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How the Bottom Fell Out of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance
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In late November 1973, just six weeks after Saudi Arabia and OPEC launched a devastating oil embargo on Europe and the United States, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kiss...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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U.S. Could Do More to Deter Iran Gray Zone Strategy, Experts Say
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When American administrations develop a deterrence strategy for Iran in the Middle East, a model to follow could be how Israel runs a covert military campaign against Iran in ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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Chinese Agents Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say
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The alarming messages came fast and furious in mid-March, popping up on the cellphone screens and social media feeds of millions of Americans grappling with the onset of the c...
By Kristine Lee
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Kim Jong Un returns to spotlight as questions over North Korean leader's fate arise
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Nuclear-armed North Korea returned to the spotlight Tuesday after contradictory media reports said leader Kim Jong Un was in critical condition while others denied he was grav...
By Van Jackson
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Putin Is Projecting Strength In the Face of Coronavirus. But the Image is Cracked
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The Kremlin is trying to project an image of competence and power as the pandemic roils the world, and aiming to conceal a darker reality back home: an uneven healthcare syste...
By Samuel Bendett
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Drone Maker Creates Ventilators For The War On Coronavirus
Across the world, people breathlessly await to see what extraordinary measures it will take to survive the pandemic. Turkey’s Baykar, makers of the Bayraktar-TB drone, has tur...
By Samuel Bendett
