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Pentagon Getting a Push to Shift Resources to Asia
A push to shift U.S. military resources to Asia to counter Chinese influence is drawing new support in Congress, where a leading lawmaker wants to compel the Pentagon to inves...
By Eric Sayers
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Launches New Initiative: America and the Post-Pandemic WorldThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a major initiative on America and the Post-Pandemic World. Leveraging CNAS’ unique multidisciplinar...
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Trump’s critique of WHO may be a diversion, but it resonates beyond the White House
President Trump is not happy with the World Health Organization. He is not the only one. On Tuesday, in the middle of a global pandemic, Trump announced that he is freezing f...
By Kristine Lee
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China Wins: Why Trump's WHO Funding Cut is a Gift to Beijing
When he accused the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday of going soft on China over the COVID-19 pandemic and suspended U.S. payments to the agency, President Donald Tr...
By Kristine Lee
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National Security Human Capital Program
Military branches were set to cut nearly 18,000 medical workers. Coronavirus brought that to a halt.The agencies that oversee the health of U.S. military personnel and veterans were pushing ahead this spring with the biggest overhaul of their health systems in three decades....
By Kayla M. Williams
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Israel’s shadow campaign offers lessons for U.S. in standoff with Iran, report says
Israel’s unacknowledged military campaign against Iranian targets in Syria could provide a model for the United States as it struggles to contain Tehran’s network of armed pro...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. vs. China: Who Is Winning the Key Technology Battles?In a world where geopolitical power is increasingly linked to technological advancement, the U.S. has long led its rivals. American companies make some of the world’s fastest ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Technology & National Security
Turkey Is The Middle East's Newest Drone Super PowerKey point: Damascus’s forces lack the technology reliably to defeat attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles. Turkey might never develop its own stealth fighter, but the country ha...
By Samuel Bendett
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On China and the World Health Organisation, Donald Trump wants to have it both ways
On 7 April, amid a global pandemic, Donald Trump returned to familiar territory: bashing China and an international institution. “The WHO really blew it,” the US president twe...
By Kristine Lee
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
America does not want China to dominate 5G mobile networksIn the 1990s America’s telecoms industry was split between two rival factions. On one side were the “bellheads”, named after the former telephone monopolist, Bell, and represe...
By Elsa B. Kania
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ROK-US defense cost-sharing talks remain at standstill
The defense cost-sharing talks between Korea and the United States are still showing no signs of progress, raising concerns that the furlough of Korean employees of the U.S. F...
By Van Jackson
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Technology & National Security
YouTube profits from videos promoting unproven Covid-19 treatmentsYouTube is profiting from videos promoting unproven coronavirus treatments, a new report has found, as the company struggles to crack down on misinformation. The Google-owned ...
By Megan Lamberth
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Indo-Pacific Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
As Trump faces heat on coronavirus response, Republicans try to elevate China’s role in domestic political debateFor months, national Republicans hoping to wrest back control of the House this fall have targeted first-term Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), hitting him on his vote to impeach Pre...
By Richard Fontaine
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Technology & National Security
JAIC readies ‘AI champions’ as commission recommends doubling R&D spendingFor the United States to stay on top of the global arms race for artificial intelligence, a commission stood up by Congress recommended a two-fold path: Collaborate with its c...
By Robert O. Work
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Canada in talks with OPEC, as oil rout continues
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday that Canada has been in communication with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) about cooperation to addre...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Russian Fund Behind Coronavirus Aid Shipment Is on U.S. Lending Blacklist
A Russian state-owned fund that says it footed half the bill of a coronavirus aid shipment delivered to the U.S. on Wednesday has been on a U.S. Treasury restricted lending li...
By Peter Harrell
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Iran, Venezuela and other U.S. foes fight coronavirus amid American sanctions
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Islamic faction in Lebanon deemed a terrorist group by the U.S., has decades of experience fighting wars. But not the kind it launched this week. Ar...
By Peter Harrell
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Russia Scores Pandemic Propaganda Triumph With Medical Delivery to U.S.
As top American officials bash the Russian government for spreading disinformation on the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump is accepting a supply of medical eq...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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One controversial aspect of Trump's response to COVID-19 is right
President Trump's response to COVID-19 has been rambling, chaotic, and petty. Lagging rather than leading international efforts to fight the virus, the US is grappling with cr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The Newest US Sanctions on China's Huawei Could BackfireWorsening relations between Washington and Beijing could trigger punishing new US restrictions on Huawei’s supply of cutting-edge microchips. But some experts believe this wou...
By Elsa B. Kania