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CNAS Responds: Biden Meets with World Leaders on First International Trip
This week, President Biden traveled to Europe in a week long tour of high-level summit meetings with leaders from key allies. In the advisory below, CNAS experts unpack the ke...
By Richard Fontaine, Lisa Curtis, Michael Kofman, Martijn Rasser, Rachel Rizzo, Jacob Stokes, Jim Townsend & Carisa Nietsche
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Rising China hovers over G-7 summit
All eyes will be on Britain when the leaders of the G-7 convene Friday on the shores of Carbis Bay in Cornwall. They won’t be at the table, but the specter looming over the fe...
By Martijn Rasser
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Will Europe sign up to Joe Biden’s plan to counter China?
Ever since he entered the White House in January, Joe Biden has articulated one foreign policy goal above others — to work with allies to restrain China.After the drama and ta...
By Martijn Rasser
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Biden signs order banning investment in dozens of Chinese defence and tech firms
US President Joe Biden on Thursday (June 3) barred Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese companies in the defence sector or whose surveillance technology aids in serio...
By Martijn Rasser
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Get Ready For the Mad Max New World of Hijacked Electric Cars and Downed Power Grids
If American motorists behave like typical consumers, they will notice a steep drop in the price of electric vehicles around the middle of the decade, and begin to snap them up...
By Richard Fontaine
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Russia Is Building an Army of Robot Weapons, and China's AI Tech Is Helping
Russia is developing an array of autonomous weapons platforms utilizing artificial intelligence as part of an ambitious push supported by high-tech cooperation with neighborin...
By Samuel Bendett & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Whose News?
The day Joe Biden was sworn in as president — January 20, 2021 — was a good day for news apps. Stuck at home due to the global pandemic, many Americans turned to their phones ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Red Cross Calls for More Limits on Autonomous Weapons
The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challeng...
By Paul Scharre
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Biden's new CISA director will confront a host of complex challenges
The next leader of the nation's top cybersecurity agency will inherit a bevy of crises. President Biden has nominated Jen Easterly, the head of Morgan Stanley’s global fusion ...
By John Costello
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Licensed to Kill: How Russia Uses Israeli Drones to Bomb Civilians in Syria
When Israeli-licensed military drones first took off from Syrian air force bases to stalk opponents of Bashar Assad’s regime, shortly after Russia’s 2015 intervention, they we...
By Samuel Bendett
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"What degree of human involvement should there be in the use of force?"
In an interview with the Metis Institute for Strategy and Foresight, Paul Scharre offers insights on weapon autonomy and the human role in future warfighting. After multiple t...
By Paul Scharre
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US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking champions
Once a month, senior executives of Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. fly to Beijing for a flurry of meetings with China's top economic management bodies. They focus on the compa...
By Martijn Rasser
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Is Washington prepared for a geopolitical ‘tech race’?
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summ...
By Jordan Schneider
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Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Russia has created a new robotic combat unit of Uran-9 unmanned ground vehicles, which have been battle-tested in Syria, though with mixed results. It’s also developing an exp...
By Samuel Bendett
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CNAS Responds: Assessing the Biden Administration's First 100 Days
President Biden will mark his first 100 days in office with a joint session address to Congress this evening. In the press note below, CNAS experts offer insights and reflecti...
By Richard Fontaine, Katherine L. Kuzminski, Ilan Goldenberg, Lisa Curtis, Martijn Rasser, Jacob Stokes, Ainikki Riikonen, Megan Lamberth, Nathalie Grogan & Jim Townsend
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Russia Plans ‘Flying Minefield’ To Counter Drone Attacks
The Russian military has released new details of its use in Syria of small kamikaze drones, known as loitering munitions, made by a Kalashnikov subsidiary. The drone maker is ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Does Big Tech Hurt U.S. National Security?
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces on Big Tech and U.S. national security. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of expert...
By Kara Frederick
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New Huawei fears over Dutch mobile eavesdropping
Huawei was able to eavesdrop on all conversations taking place on one of the Netherlands' largest mobile networks, according to a Dutch newspaper report. Huawei staff both in ...
By Martijn Rasser
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France cuts two nuclear-powered submarines in half to make one new one
A French nuclear-powered submarine severely damaged by fire last year has been saved from the scrapyard -- by cutting it in two and welding the salvageable half to part of ano...
By CDR Thomas Shugart, USN
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Pentagon turns to the stars to survive China's electronic warfare
Every newly commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy's surface fleet carries a copy of Nathaniel Bowditch's "The American Practical Navigator" (1802) on its bridge. This thick encyc...
By Billy Fabian