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Biden signs order banning investment in dozens of Chinese defence and tech firmsUS 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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Technology & National Security
Get Ready For the Mad Max New World of Hijacked Electric Cars and Downed Power GridsIf 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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Technology & National Security
Russia Is Building an Army of Robot Weapons, and China's AI Tech Is HelpingRussia 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 WeaponsThe 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 challengesThe 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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Middle East Security / Technology & National Security
Licensed to Kill: How Russia Uses Israeli Drones to Bomb Civilians in SyriaWhen 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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Defense / Technology & National Security
"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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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
US-China tech war: Beijing's secret chipmaking championsOnce 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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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
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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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Inside Russia’s Robot Army: Rhetoric vs. RealityRussia 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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Press Note
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Responds: Assessing the Biden Administration's First 100 DaysPresident 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 AttacksThe 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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Technology & National Security
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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Technology & National Security
New Huawei fears over Dutch mobile eavesdroppingHuawei 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 oneA 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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Pentagon turns to the stars to survive China's electronic warfareEvery 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
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Future Tank: Beyond The M1 AbramsWhat comes after the M1 Abrams, the Army’s massive Reagan-era main battle tank? “Everything is on the table at this point,” the service’s armor modernization director, Maj. Ge...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Russian fighter pilots could soon fly alongside bomb-filled combat dronesIf Russia decides to send planes into combat by the end of this decade, human pilots in those aircraft will still pick targets, but it will be drone escorts that actually drop...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Biden’s $180 Billion R&D Plan Prioritizes Key Areas Such As Chips, Quantum ComputingAs part of his recently unveiled $2 trillion infrastructure investment plan, President Joe Biden said his administration would commit $180 billion to “R&D and industries o...
By Elsa B. Kania
