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China in the global spotlight as its annual political congress gets underway
The huge and highly choreographed set piece of the Chinese political calendar got underway Friday with around 3,000 Communist Party officials and military delegates descending...
By Kristine Lee
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS, CERL, and APPC Announce Collaboration on Protecting the Integrity of the 2020 Election against Foreign InterferenceThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law (CERL) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (...
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Cold War 2.0: How Trump's Attacks on China Could Backfire
In September of 1946, Nikolai Novikov, the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., penned what would become known as the Novikov Telegram, which assessed the foreign policy of Presiden...
By Kristine Lee
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Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Surveillance-tech restrictions stripped from Uyghur bill could end up in NDAAThe Senate’s passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act was the culmination of a months-long effort to hold Beijing accountable for a sweeping crackdown against its minorit...
By Martijn Rasser
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Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen riding high into second term as Trump fights China
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged China’s Xi Jinping to “find a way to coexist” with the island’s democratic government, as she started her second term riding high with a...
By Ashley Feng
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
For most of Afghanistan war, U.S. ‘never really fought to win,’ Trump declaresPresident Trump on Monday declared that the United States had “never really fought to win” in Afghanistan, except early in the nearly two-decade-long war, making a sweeping st...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—EasyIn 1937, the year that George Orwell was shot in the neck while fighting fascists in Spain, Julian Chen was born in Shanghai. His parents, a music teacher and a chemist, enrol...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Pandemic Shatters World Order, Sowing Anger and Mistrust
While the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across much of the globe, political and business leaders are already starting to think about what the world might look like once th...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
China emerges as potential strain on US-Israel relationshipIncreasingly close ties between China and Israel risk straining the special relationship Israel has with the U.S., especially as Washington ramps up its feud with Beijing over...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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When it comes to coronavirus response, superpowers may need to study smaller nations
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the international hierarchy. Three of the world’s great powers — the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia — have the largest and m...
By Van Jackson
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Chip titan TSMC caught in crossfire between US and ChinaNot even the coronavirus pandemic is stopping the vast expansion plans of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. In the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, in tropical sunshin...
By Martijn Rasser
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Defense / National Security Human Capital Program
Military faces another potential coronavirus toll: Budget cutsAs the novel coronavirus has swept the globe, Pentagon officials have scrambled to adjust everything from basic training to submarine deployments to prevent the pandemic from ...
By Robert F. Hale
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For Europe's strongmen, pandemic is opportunity and risk
Europe's strongmen leaders want to use the coronavirus pandemic to tighten their grip while touting their prowess in overcoming crises, but their authority risks being badly u...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
The Great DecouplingThe U.S. ambassador on the spot in an Asian economic powerhouse put it bluntly in a cable to the secretary of state in Washington: Don’t cut them off. Give them some “economic...
By Ashley Feng
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
New Russian Robot Can Climb Stairs And Blow Up BombsThe Syrian civil war is nearly a decade-long tragedy, a geopolitical mess, and a proving ground for Russian military technology. Among that technology is a new iteration of th...
By Samuel Bendett
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Chinese military action plausible as its leaders feel backed into a corner
China’s anger at taking international blame for the coronavirus pandemic has raised the likelihood that Beijing will order a rare assault against a smaller neighbor, U.S. obse...
By Eric Sayers
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Anja Manuel Discusses U.S.-China Relations on Bloomberg Daybreak AsiaAnja Manuel, former US State Department official, Director of the Aspen Security Forum, author of This Brave New World: China, India and the U.S. She discussed the rise in US-...
By Anja Manuel
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s Disinformation Campaign Targets Virus, Researcher SaysAn army of bot accounts linked to an alleged Chinese government-backed propaganda campaign is spreading disinformation on social media about coronavirus and other topics, incl...
By Elsa B. Kania
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FBI probes Mexican, European firms over Venezuela oil trading-sources
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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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 eraGlobal 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