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Marise Payne and Antony Blinken call for ‘real transparency’ from China on Covid origins
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Foreign Minister Marise Payne and US secretary of state Antony Blinken have called for greater transparency from China over the origins of SARSCov2, amid growing interest in t...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Gaza doom loop
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Dozens have already died in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, and more will perish if the fighting continues to escalate. But there is little chance that the root cause o...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
Red Cross Calls for More Limits on Autonomous WeaponsThe International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challeng...
By Paul Scharre
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Amid warnings of a 'full scale war,' Biden administration dispatches envoy to Middle East
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The Biden administration dispatched a top State Department diplomat to the Middle East "immediately" to try to de-escalate the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas, Secret...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Space Force Aims to Take on an Air Force Surveillance Mission
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A few years ago, the Air Force began looking at ways to replace its JSTARS surveillance aircraft, to ensure it could keep providing a clear picture of ground movement when the...
By Sarah Mineiro
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Biden struggles to respond to Israeli-Palestinian violence after Trump refused to criticize Israel
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After four years of President Trump’s refusal to condemn or even mildly critique any Israeli act, the Biden administration faces soaring Israeli-Palestinian violence equipped ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Beijing Tries to Put Its Imprint on Blockchain
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China, home of the Great Firewall, is trying to bring order to a scrappy corner of cyberspace—and in the process put its mark on the next-generation internet. A Beijing-backed...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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What the Latest Fighting Between Israelis and Palestinians Means for Biden
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To understand what the latest fighting means for Washington, Foreign Policy spoke to Ilan Goldenberg, who served as a senior State Department official in the Obama administrat...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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National Security Human Capital
'Disturbing and reckless': Retired brass spread election lie in attack on Biden, DemocratsA day after 124 retired generals and admirals released a letter spreading the lie that President Joe Biden stole the election, current and former military officers are speakin...
By Jim Golby
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Technology & National Security
Biden's new CISA director will confront a host of complex challengesThe next leader of the nation's top cybersecurity agency will inherit a bevy of crises. President Biden has nominated Jen Easterly, the head of Morgan Stanley’s global fusion ...
By John Costello
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National Security Human Capital
‘We cut too deep’: Air Force reinstates hundreds of ROTC cadets after dismissals spark backlashThe Air Force reversed its decision to dismiss hundreds of reserve officer training cadets and restored nearly 130 scholarships, officials said, after a lobbying effort assail...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Licensed to Kill: How Russia Uses Israeli Drones to Bomb Civilians in SyriaWhen Israeli-licensed military drones first took off from Syrian air force bases to stalk opponents of Bashar Assad’s regime, shortly after Russia’s 2015 intervention, they we...
By Samuel Bendett
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Defense / Technology & National Security
"What degree of human involvement should there be in the use of force?"In an interview with the Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight, Paul Scharre offers insights on weapon autonomy and the human role in future warfighting. After multiple t...
By Paul Scharre
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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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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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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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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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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
