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U.S. ignores calls to suspend Venezuela and Iran sanctions amid coronavirus pandemic
At a time when all of humanity is facing a common, invisible, enemy, world leaders have called for a suspension of economic sanctions that have increasingly become the pursuit...
By Peter Harrell
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Navy Docks Carrier, Marines Weigh Buzz Cuts as Virus Spreads
The Pentagon is struggling to stay ahead of the expanding coronavirus pandemic as early missteps start piling up, a scattershot response sows confusion and the Navy is forced ...
By Emma Moore
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The Problem With China’s Victory Lap
On January 24, a few days after the United States confirmed its first coronavirus case, President Donald Trump expressed his gratitude for China’s “efforts and transparency” i...
By Rush Doshi
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Coronavirus rattles America's national security priesthood
If the U.S. foreign policy establishment were a high school cafeteria, the popular kids would be the terrorism and nuclear weapons analysts. And the global health specialists ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Gulf Sovereign Funds Seen Shedding $300 Billion in Market Mayhem
The Gulf region’s rainy day funds are bracing for the deluge. On top of the collapse of oil prices and meltdown in global markets, Gulf sovereign wealth funds are channeling s...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Dr. Jeannette Gaudry Haynie and Dr. Kyleanne Hunter Join CNAS as Adjunct Senior Fellows
Washington, March 26, 2020—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeannette Gaudry Haynie and Dr. Kyleanne Hunter have joined CNAS as Ad...
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Trump’s ‘Disaster Diplomacy’ Has So Far Had Few Results
As the coronavirus raced across the globe earlier this year, the Trump administration offered assistance to a pair of longtime American enemies, Iran and North Korea. The resp...
By Richard Fontaine
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As U.S. struggles to stem coronavirus, China asserts itself as global leader
With Italy in dire need of medical equipment, an economic superpower stepped in to help. No, not the United States. It was China. Beijing last week promised Rome a thousand ...
By Ely Ratner
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U.S. Officials Push for Expelling Suspected Chinese Spies at Media Outlets
As China moves forward with expelling almost all American journalists from three major American newspapers, Trump administration officials have intensified discussions over wh...
By Daniel Kliman
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Immigrant doctors want to help the Army fight the coronavirus. The Pentagon won’t let them.
Dozens of immigrant physicians who enlisted through a Pentagon program meant to harness their medical skills are stuck taking out trash and filing paperwork, an immigration at...
By Paul Scharre
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How the Pandemic Will End
Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more wh...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Richard Danzig
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Oil price crash prompts tougher US sanctions push on Iran, Venezuela flows: analysts
Rather than compelling the Trump administration to relax its oil sanctions regime, the global coronavirus pandemic and oil price crash may be motivating an even more aggressiv...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Indo-Pacom Presses All Domain Ops; Sends Plan To Hill Soon
At a time where the Navy has been pretty quiet about All-Domain Operations — an emerging war fighting concept being pushed by the Pentagon’s top leaders — the head of Indo-Pac...
By Eric Sayers & Daniel Kliman
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With Iran tensions high, a US military command pushes a dubious carrier strategy
Amid heightened tension with Iran, the U.S. Navy is operating two carriers in the Middle East, and all signs point to increasing pressure from U.S. Central Command to maintain...
By Kaleigh Thomas
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North Macedonia to officially join NATO on Friday
North Macedonia is expected to deliver paperwork to the U.S. State Department on Friday that will officially make it the 30th member of the NATO alliance. The move — decades ...
By Jim Townsend
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CNAS Responds: Coronavirus Outbreak Tests Every Aspect of U.S. and International Security
As regions across the U.S. announce states of emergency and a growing list of countries restrict travel, close schools, and quarantine citizens, the economic costs of the coro...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg, Paul Scharre, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, COL Sarah Albrycht, Kristine Lee, Peter Harrell, John Hughes, Rachel Ziemba, Michael Horowitz, Elsa B. Kania, Will Mackenzie, Ashley Feng, Kaleigh Thomas, Carisa Nietsche, Emma Moore, Joshua Fitt, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth & Ainikki Riikonen
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When fighting bureaucracy means disbanding a pandemics office
When 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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Lawmakers fret as China funnels coronavirus aid to Europe
As 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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Bringing Back the Draft: 5 Possibilities for the Future of Military Conscription
Late 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
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