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CNAS Delivers Congressionally Mandated Study on U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific to the Department of DefenseThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today delivered an independent assessment—Rising to the China Challenge: Renewing American Competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific—to...
By Cole Stevens
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Could Iran’s Revolution Unravel Over a Four-Cent Price Hike?
In mid-November, in a surprise overnight announcement, the revolutionary regime in Iran hiked the price of gasoline. By standards anywhere else in the world, it is still pitif...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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NATO is finally talking about China, and there are 3 big problems it has to address
In The News
The NATO leaders summit that ended Wednesday featured many of the debates that have come up before in the alliance's 70-year history, but there was also a newer topic on the a...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Erdogan retreats on demand that NATO label YPG a terrorist group
In The News
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan approached the just-concluded meeting of NATO heads of state in London with the demand that NATO recognizes the Kurdish People’s Protect...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
China's move on face-recognition standardsChinese tech companies have ramped up efforts to set technical standards for facial recognition, raising concerns among business competitors, political observers and humanitar...
By Kara Frederick
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Technology & National Security
Are drone swarms the future of aerial warfare?As evening fell on Russia’s Khmeimim airbase in western Syria, the first drones appeared. Then more, until 13 were flashing on radars, speeding towards the airbase and a nearb...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump Moves Toward Labeling Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Groups
The Trump administration is moving forward on calls to classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations after the killing of nine U.S. citizens in Mexico, with top off...
By Peter Harrell
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It's getting harder for NATO to hide that Turkey's becoming 'a thorn in everyone's side'
After months of warnings from the US and other NATO members, Turkey tested its S-400s last week, putting the Russian-made air-defense system, deployed to an airbase near Ankar...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Despite Acrimony Among Leaders, NATO Is Making Strides at 70
It was, perhaps, an unexpected way to mark NATO’s 70th anniversary. At a remarkably rancorous bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, U.S. Presiden...
By Jim Townsend
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The Madcap Scheme to Take Syria's Oil
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A retired Army intelligence officer, a successful Kurdish-American businessman, a former Syrian diplomat, and an eccentric entrepreneur from New Jersey met in January over foo...
By Peter Harrell
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Fact check: Trump makes at least 21 false claims at NATO meetings
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President Donald Trump held official meetings with two foreign leaders and the head of NATO at the alliance summit in London on Tuesday -- and turned the public portion of eac...
By Nicholas Heras
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How NATO can punish Turkey
In The News
In NATO’s 70-year history, no member state has strayed as far from the alliance’s foundational ideas as Turkey has in the past year. Yet as they gather for this week’s summit ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Technology & National Security
Shunned in the US, Huawei looks to Russia to invent an AI futureOne by one the doors closed. Over the past 18 months, top US universities including Princeton, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley have rethought their researc...
By Elsa B. Kania
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NATO leaders gathering in London brace themselves for Trump 'fireworks'
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NATO leaders gathering to mark the alliance's 70th anniversary in London face multiple challenges -- including the uncertainty of what President Donald Trump might do. Trump ...
By Jim Townsend
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Is China NATO’s new adversary?
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The West’s most venerable military alliance is marking its 70th birthday this week in Britain. And it’s going to be awkward. Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Report: U.S. Shoulders Steep Price to Protect Merchant Ships in Strait Of Hormuz
The Navy pays a steep price keeping an aircraft carrier with escorts on station to deter attacks on oil tanker traffic operating in and around the Persian Gulf as part of the ...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Kaleigh Thomas
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Technology & National Security
Russia and China's High-Tech BetAs the United States increases its geopolitical and economic pressure on China and Russia, the two countries are expanding not just their military cooperation but increasing t...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Domestic political considerations behind Trump's signing of Hong Kong Bills
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China may fume at United States President Donald Trump’s signing of a pair of Bills supporting the Hong Kong democracy protests, but Mr Trump has calculated that the move is u...
By Daniel Kliman
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Donald Trump has shown a surprising enthusiasm for sanctions
In December 2017 the Democratic Republic of Congo was in ferment. Joseph Kabila, then the president, seemed to be weighing whether or not to stand in an election, even though ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Is Turkey becoming a haven for terrorist financing?
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New U.S. sanctions on Islamic State (ISIS) operatives based in Turkey have brought questions about Ankara’s counterterrorism priorities and raised the prospect that the countr...
By Peter Harrell
