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Technology & National Security
Washington must wake up to the abuse of software that killsDictators 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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Syrian Kurds: Threat of Turkish Action Impacts Anti-IS Fight
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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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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Senate Bill Targets Chinese Economic EspionageA 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
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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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Technology & National Security
Huawei CFO’s bail was set at $7.5 million and she will pay for her own surveillanceHuawei’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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Technology & National Security
U.S. intelligence sounds the alarm on the quantum gap with ChinaFor 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
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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
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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
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New Taliban Attack Prompts Familiar Question: What's Next In Afghanistan?
The Taliban staged a coordinated attack overnight on two Afghan army outposts, killing 14 Afghan soldiers. It's the latest attack by insurgents on the country's beleaguered na...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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As One Arms Treaty Falls Apart, Others Look Shakier
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The impending collapse of a Cold War-era treaty banning U.S. and Russian intermediate-range missiles is spurring broader concerns about the very future of arms control. Respon...
By Elbridge Colby
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Will Opec defy Trump's call for low oil prices?
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Initially it is difficult see what President Donald Trump and Usman Ahsan, a taxi driver in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, have in common. One is the leader of the US, wi...
By Rachel Ziemba
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National Security Human Capital Program
'Badass' national security women offer Democrats a Trump antidoteVirginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger had a potent defense against attacks by President Donald Trump and other Republicans casting her party as weak on national security: her c...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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U.S. Gives Russia a Deadline on Nuclear Treaty
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday that the Trump administration would begin the formal process to scrap the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty wi...
By Elbridge Colby
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Russia isn’t complying with an arms control treaty — so the US is threatening to rip it upThe Trump administration just announced that it will give Russia 60 days to comply with a decades-old missile treaty or the US will withdraw from it — potentially kickstarting...
By Eric Sayers
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Technology & National Security
Forget The Terminator: Robotics For Logistics 1st, Combat 2ndDespite heated talk of killer robots and powered armor, the unsexy truth is that artificial intelligence, robotics, and exoskeletons will be hauling ammo and helping mechanics...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump and NATO Show Rare Unity in Confronting Russia’s Arms Treaty Violation
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The Trump administration and NATO, which have been antagonists more often than not, presented an unusual united front on Tuesday, when U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave...
By Jim Townsend
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President Trump's Meetings (and Cancellations) Dominate G20 Headlines
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America's trade war with China is on a temporary pause, thanks to conversations at the G20 Summit in Argentina last weekend. Rachel Rizzo, Bacevich Fellow at the Center For a ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Kurdish-backed council rejects Russian fears over Kurdish 'quasi-states'
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The Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) has called on Russia to focus on ending crimes by Turkish-backed groups in Afrin, rather than expressing worries that the Sy...
By Nicholas Heras
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‘Twists but no plot’: Trump’s diminishing foreign travel reflects a president scaling back foreign ambition
After midterm elections in which their party loses political power in Washington, American presidents have traditionally used foreign travel to change the subject and more eas...
By Richard Fontaine
