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Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery.
The first time they met was in Germany. President Trump took his interpreter’s notes afterward and ordered him not to disclose what he heard to anyone. Later that night, at a ...
By Victoria Nuland
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Competing Against Chinese Loans, U.S. Companies Face Long Odds in Africa
Growing up in suburban Ohio, Rajakumari Jandhyala never imagined she would end up in the oil business, much less on the front line of America’s global competition with China. ...
By Abigail Grace
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How Trump’s new chief of staff can impact the FY20 defense plan
In The News
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney’s takeover, at least temporarily, of the White House chief of staff position could have repercussions for defense spendi...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Why the Bitcoin bomb hoax signals a dangerous new era for cybersecurity
In The News
School administrators, business owners and various other people across the U.S. and Canada received some strange emails on Thursday threatening them to pay $20,000 worth of Bi...
By Sam Dorshimer
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Project Maven Overseer Will Lead Pentagon’s New AI Center
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who oversaw the Pentagon’s controversial Project Maven artificial intelligence project, will lead its new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, or JAIC...
By Paul Scharre
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Iran deal, Saudi murder: Turbulent year shakes up Middle East
In The News
A murdered Saudi journalist. A scrapped Iran nuclear deal. The two events alone have undone years of diplomacy in the Middle East, testing old alliances and shaking up the reg...
By Nicholas Heras
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Turkey's Slap to the Face of America's Syria Policy
Press Note
Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the beginning of a military operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern and eastern Syria, crea...
By Nicholas Heras
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Asia Reassurance Initiative Act passed by US Senate will beef up engagement across Indo-Pacific
In The News
An Act that is seen as a significant indication of bipartisan support for deepening US engagement in the Indo-Pacific region is quietly making its way through Congress amid Wa...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Eric Sayers
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Trump's destabilizing "intervention" in Huawei CFO case
In The News
In an interview with Reuters, President Trump suggested he might be willing to trade an arrested Chinese executive for a better trade deal. Such an offer, experts tell Axios, ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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No removal of border walls amid Turkish threats, but fear remains in Serekaniye
In The News
The mixed town of Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain) was quiet on Thursday and, despite some rumors, there was no sign of Turkey removing any wall along its southern border with Syria. K...
By Nicholas Heras
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With eyes on China and Trump, Japan to invest in ‘aircraft carrier,’ F-35 fighters
In The News
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to give this island nation what effectively is its first aircraft carrier since World War II and will announce plans to purchase dozen...
By Richard Fontaine
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Syrian Kurds: Threat of Turkish Action Impacts Anti-IS Fight
In The News
Kurdish officials in Syria say any Turkish military action against them would affect their efforts in defeating Islamic State in its last stronghold in the country. The commen...
By Nicholas Heras
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Washington must wake up to the abuse of software that kills
In The News
Dictators are using spyware to persecute dissidents and journalists at an alarming rate, while the foreign firms that sell these tools assure the public that everything is jus...
By Vance Serchuk
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Senate Bill Targets Chinese Economic Espionage
In The News
A new Senate bill would expand the ability of American prosecutors to go after hackers abroad who attempt to steal trade secrets from U.S. firms, in the latest effort in Washi...
By Peter Harrell
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Trump administration to condemn China over hacking and economic espionage, escalating tensions between superpowers
In The News
The Trump administration is preparing actions this week to call out Beijing for what it says are China’s continued efforts to steal American trade secrets and advanced technol...
By Ely Ratner
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Huawei CFO’s bail was set at $7.5 million and she will pay for her own surveillance
In The News
Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 at the request of the US on suspicion of violating sanctions on Iran, was granted bail of C$10 million ($7.5 million) i...
By Elsa B. Kania
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U.S. intelligence sounds the alarm on the quantum gap with China
In The News
For years, quantum computing, which leverages the difficult, and, to many, spooky science of quantum mechanics, has been a subject mostly of interest to the technical elite. Y...
By Elsa B. Kania
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US sees renewed leverage over Assad in Syria
In The News
The Donald Trump administration believes it has leverage over Russia and Iran to bring the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria back to the negotiating table and rekindle the UN-le...
By Nicholas Heras
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China mutes volume on Thousand Talents Plan as US spy concerns rise but scientists still covet funding
In The News
Australian quantum physicist Tim Byrnes happily accepted a faculty post to work in China about five years ago, swapping the barbecue for dumplings. But for someone whose work ...
By Abigail Grace
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Trump’s Tough China Tack Wins Over Skeptical CEOs
When President Trump first threatened to levy major tariffs on China, business leaders worried the administration was using the wrong weapon on the right target. It wasn’t th...
By Abigail Grace
