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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law
As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic valuesThe setting was the Rose Garden. The topic was China. And for President Trump, the goal of the White House event Friday was to condemn the communist nation as a threat to demo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Australian government asks China for same reduction in trade barriers as US
The Morrison government has asked China to grant Australia the same reduction in bureaucratic trade barriers that Beijing has promised the United States. The requ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Inhofe, Reed back new military fund to confront China
As the U.S. Congress hardens against Beijing, two key lawmakers publicly added their support for a new military fund to boost deterrence against China in the Pacific, virtuall...
By Eric Sayers
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European Defense and ‘Strategic Autonomy’ Are Also Coronavirus Victims
The coronavirus has upended the best-laid plans and priorities of many, including the European Union. But one of the biggest casualties may be European efforts to build a more...
By Jim Townsend
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Beijing Escalates Crackdown on Hong KongChina's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, is poised to consider a new national security law to tighten Beijing's vise on Hong Kong. By circumventing th...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, Kristine Lee, Ashley Feng & Joshua Fitt
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National Security Human Capital
As veterans face heightened unemployment risk, ‘Call of Duty’ lends a handOver the last nine weeks, more than 38.6 million Americans have filed unemployment claims as the covid-19 pandemic continues to impact the U.S. economy. Massive layoffs due to...
By Nathalie Grogan
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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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CNAS, CERL, and APPC Announce Collaboration on Protecting the Integrity of the 2020 Election against Foreign Interference
The 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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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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Technology & National Security / National Security Law
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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
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
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