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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Lawmakers fret as China funnels coronavirus aid to EuropeAs the rest of the world battens down the hatches amid a rising tide of COVID-19 cases, Beijing is in the midst of a major charm offensive. In the past few days, both the Chi...
By Martijn Rasser
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
When fighting bureaucracy means disbanding a pandemics officeWhen PBS journalist Yamiche Alcindor recently asked President Donald Trump about his decision to disband the National Security Council’s office for pandemics, Mr. Trump said t...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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National Security Human Capital Program
Bringing Back the Draft: 5 Possibilities for the Future of Military ConscriptionLate in the evening on Jan. 2, as Americans contemplated a return to work after the New Year holiday, shocking news began to ricochet across the internet: The United States ha...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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U.S. to Iran: Coronavirus won't save you from sanctions
In The News
The United States sent Iran a blunt message this week: the spread of the coronavirus will not save it from U.S. sanctions that are choking off its oil revenues and isolating i...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Technology & National Security
How coronavirus could impact the defense supply chainAs the American defense industry tries to assess the way forward under the new coronavirus pandemic, it should keep a close eye on the lower tiers of its supply chain, analyst...
By Paul Scharre & Martijn Rasser
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Pentagon reluctantly moves to help combat coronavirusThe US military has begun to slowly step in to aid the federal government’s coronavirus response despite reluctance among Pentagon leaders, who are concerned the domestic depl...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
China Casts Itself as Global Savior While U.S. and EU Focus on Virus at HomeSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic was emotional as he gave a press conference on the global coronavirus pandemic this week, bluntly naming which countries Serbia could count ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Would Lifting Sanctions Really Help With Iran’s Coronavirus Crisis?
In a world facing a pandemic, Iran’s struggles with the coronavirus stand out. The country currently has more than 17,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19—growing at about 1,000 pe...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Its Coronavirus Cases Dwindling, China Turns Focus Outward
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China’s leader, Xi Jinping, pledged to send more medical experts to Italy this week, on the same day Beijing sent 2,000 rapid diagnostic tests to the Philippines. Serbia’s pre...
By Rush Doshi
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Technology & National Security
Guess Who’s a Drone Power Now. TurkeyTurkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country has become a major user, and seller, of an entirely different class of warplane. Armed drones. Tunisia in m...
By Samuel Bendett
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National Security Human Capital Program
ROTC at black colleges? How Pentagon aims to diversify military brass.As a first-generation college student in Texas, George Bolton was hooked on an Army career through the stories of the Buffalo soldiers, the black cavalry units formed in 1866 ...
By Nathalie Grogan
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Coronavirus Can’t Quarantine The Proxy War Between U.S. and Iran
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A pandemic is spreading around the world, challenging global health systems and national preparedness. About the only thing the novel coronavirus is not disrupting is conflict...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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This Is a Particularly Bad Time for U.S.-Iran Tensions to Flare
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A sober American leader — looking at the scale of the crisis she faced at home, recognizing that she had to contend not just with a novel virus but a fractured political syste...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Coronavirus: China’s mask-making juggernaut cranks into gear, sparking fears of over-reliance on world’s workshop
The Liu family factory has been making diapers and baby products in the Chinese city of Quanzhou for over 10 years, but in February, for the first time, it started making face...
By Rush Doshi
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U.S. and China Turn Coronavirus Into a Geopolitical Football
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In a bid to restore its reputation globally, China claims to have fundamentally contained the spread of coronavirus in its hardest-hit areas and has pledged $20 million to hel...
By Kristine Lee
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Place Your Bets on Russia’s New Bomber
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The Russian government has approved the development of a new heavy bomber. Now we wait. The Kremlin inked a deal with Tupolev, a subsidiary of the United Aircraft Corporation,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Coronavirus: The Deadly New U.S.-Iran StandoffThe official COVlD-19 death toll in Iran has risen to 237 people today as the U.S.-Iranian diplomatic standoff continues to slow down international cooperation to fight the ne...
By Peter Harrell
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US walks tightrope as coronavirus hits adversaries
The spread of coronavirus around the globe is raising questions about how the United States should help its adversaries mitigate the disease. The Trump administration has sent...
By Kristine Lee
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Iran Sanctions Aggravate Coronavirus Crisis
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Have years of U.S. sanctions and efforts to isolate Iran affected the ability to get information about –- or aid to help control –- the coronavirus, as it continues to spread?...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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U.S. military scrambles to confront a new reality across the Middle East
In the weeks since an American drone strike killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, U.S. military leaders have been sprinting to confront a dangerous new reality in the Midd...
By Ilan Goldenberg
