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Hong Kong’s Retreat Chips Away at Xi Jinping’s Iron Image
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, was in Tajikistan on Saturday, celebrating his 66th birthday with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, when the political crisis in Hong Kong ...
By Jude Blanchette
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10 killed in northeast Syrian wildfires: Monitor
At least 10 people have been killed in Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria since Thursday while trying to extinguish mass wildfires that have recently spread across thousands o...
By Nicholas Heras
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North Korea Fires Insults at U.S., Spares Trump
A year after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s historic first meeting with President Trump, his government is once again hurling insults at the U.S.—while keeping Mr. Trump ou...
By Duyeon Kim
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The Goal for Now Is Not Diplomacy With Iran, But Avoiding War
So, is America going to war? For the first time in over 15 years, perhaps, that’s a very sensible question. The answer is: likely not. At least not in the Middle East. Ships...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Technology & National Security
The UTC-Raytheon deal highlights the changing nature of warWith a deep voice and physique of a former American-football player, Greg Hayes, boss of United Technologies Corp (utc), does not seem like the soft sort. But the ego is delic...
By Kara Frederick
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'You have to know how to hit a curveball': Trump’s Pentagon choice fights to win over doubters
The knocks on President Donald Trump’s defense-secretary-in-waiting have been circulating for months behind closed doors in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. Pat Shanahan is t...
By Elbridge Colby
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Kurds say White Helmets not welcome to help fight fires in northeast Syria
The White Helmets rescue organization has offered to help with firefighting efforts in northeast Syria where thousands of acres of farmland have been recently destroyed, but S...
By Nicholas Heras
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Drumbeat of Iran war grows louder as Trump ratchets up pressure
The drumbeat of war between the United States and Iran grew louder on Friday as President Donald Trump flatly rejected Tehran’s insistence that it had nothing to do with a pai...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Hong Kong Protests Raise Stakes for Xi’s Hard-Line Agenda
Since he took power seven years ago, President Xi Jinping has faced a growing din of foreign condemnation over his government’s human rights record, a trade war that has sappe...
By Jude Blanchette
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As Oil Tankers Burn in Gulf, Investors Focus on Trade War
For bulls and bears with long memories, the oil market may seem a lot like 1991. Nearly three decades ago, U.S. forces had just launched the “Desert Storm” operation to liber...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Can Turkey find substitute for F-35?
As Ankara readies to take delivery of Russia’s S-400 air defence system next month, Washington has made clear its plan to expel Turkey from its F-35 advanced fighter jet progr...
By Nicholas Heras
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One year since the Singapore summit: what’s changed, and what could happen next?
A year ago today, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump sat down at the Capella Hotel on Singapore's Sentosa Island for their first meeting. The talk...
By Duyeon Kim
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Abdel-Basset al-Sarout: Controversial singer of Syria's war
The Aisha mosque in Idlib's al-Dana town on Sunday resonated with the words of Abdel-Basset al-Sarout, a Syrian footballer turned revolutionary song-writer and rebel, as gun-t...
By Nicholas Heras
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America's Current War Plans for China, Russia Will Not Work, New Report Says
The Pentagon's plans to develop weapons and strategies to penetrate Russian or Chinese complex defense networks are a waste of time and could lead to the defeat of U.S. milita...
By Chris Dougherty
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The Finance 202: China becomes early 2020 flashpoint as Trump and Biden trade blows
Joe Biden is getting tougher on China. Whether voters think it's tough enough could shape the direction of the 2020 race. The former vice president, leading early polling for...
By Ely Ratner
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The 2020 Democrats Want to Reenter the Iran Deal. That May Not Be Possible.
It’s Jan. 21, 2021. Still a little bleary-eyed from inauguration festivities, President Pete Buttigieg sits down at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and, with steely deter...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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‘Fort Trump’ for Poland? Not Quite.
The Trump administration has been mainly focused on the strategic threat from China in recent months, but U.S. President Donald Trump is signaling that he is keeping at least ...
By Elbridge Colby & Rachel Rizzo
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Trump Is Set to Send More Troops Overseas—This Time to Poland
With a president forever battling questions about his ties to Russia, Donald Trump’s administration keeps finding ways to confront the country. There have been sanctions, dipl...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Trump's attacks on Iran complicate trade war with ChinaThe Trump administration has abandoned Obama-era engagement of both China and Iran in favor of pressure and confrontation. This has pushed Beijing and Tehran closer together, ...
By Elbridge Colby
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‘Tariffs are the answer’: Trump appears emboldened after economic brinkmanship with Mexico
A sense of relief among Republicans and business leaders after President Trump postponed his tariff threats against Mexico gave way Monday to growing unease over whether he ha...
By Richard Fontaine