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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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Xi Jinping Is Tightening His Grip on China, Joe Biden Adviser Warns
Xi Jinping is taking steps to solidify his position as China's central decision-maker, potentially isolating himself from moderate voices that might advise against more assert...
By Kurt Campbell
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EXPLAINER: The US investigation into COVID-19 origins
Once dismissed by most public health experts and government officials, the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked accidentally from a Chinese lab is now receiving scrutiny under a ne...
By David Feith
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Biden seeks to unite allies on China
President Biden will try to unite allies behind a common approach to addressing a rising China when he travels to Europe on his first overseas trip as commander in chief.Biden...
By Lisa Curtis
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US National Security official says Washington taking action to maintain Taiwan Strait peace
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S. National Security Council (NSC) coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, on Tuesday (June 8) said that the last thing the world needs i...
By Kurt Campbell & Richard Fontaine
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Biden's top Asia official says Myanmar situation getting worse
WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's policy coordinator for the Indo-Pacific region said on Tuesday the situation inside military-ruled Myanmar was deeply conc...
By Kurt Campbell
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Biden’s Asia Czar Says China Is to Blame for Its Diplomatic Woes
China has only itself to blame for a global backlash against its policies, the White House’s top official for Asia said. “Over the last year or two the country that has done t...
By Kurt Campbell
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Making America Global Again
WASHINGTON, DC – The liberal international order remains trapped in the twentieth century. As autocracies like China and Russia increasingly develop spheres of cooperation, th...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden extends Trump's tough line on China
By embracing moves made during the last year of the Trump administration, President Biden is persuading reluctant U.S. progressives and even some European leaders that a more ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden not seeking to add countries to Quad to counter China
Biden administration officials say they are not pushing to add other countries to the strategic U.S.-India-Japan-Australia “Quad” group but stress that the future of American ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden expands Trump order by banning U.S. investment in Chinese companies linked to the military or surveillance technology
The Biden administration is expanding a Trump-era order that banned U.S. investment in Chinese companies that support China’s military to include those selling surveillance te...
By David Feith
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US Training Mission Uncertain as Afghan Withdrawal Nears End
The fate of the international effort to train Afghan national security forces has become increasingly unclear as Pentagon officials point to other priorities with only about t...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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How Biden Came Around to the Wuhan Lab-Leak Theory
When Joe Biden ordered US intelligence last week to intensify efforts to determine the origins of Covid-19, he gave fresh life to the theory that the virus may have leaked fro...
By David Feith
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'US considers India one of its most important defence partners'
Strengthening the diplomatic relations is the common challenge—China and its aggressive agenda in the Indo-Pacific region. The reorganising of the Quad, and the strategic urge...
By Lisa Curtis
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This Memorial Day, remember those who died in Afghanistan, and the loved ones they left behind
It was a graduation gift from his mother, a chance to skydive.Quinn Johnson-Harris of Milwaukee made that first jump and declared: "I'm going to live in the sky."And he did, j...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Coronavirus ‘lab leak’ theory jumps from mocked to maybe as Biden orders intelligence review
In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus ripped through U.S. cities on its way to claiming more than 592,000 American lives, a group of senior U.S. national security official...
By David Feith
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Son of late Northern Alliance leader builds movement in Afghanistan as US troops withdraw and uncertainty rises
The son of one of Afghanistan’s most renowned guerrilla leaders is working to unite disparate militias against the Taliban, fearing the group may try to regain control of the ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Many served, some died: Nebraskans look back on the Afghanistan War
The long-awaited, long-delayed final pullout of U.S. and NATO forces after 20 years of war in Afghanistan has finally begun. President Joe Biden set a deadline of Sept. 11 for...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Spy Agencies Seek New Afghan Allies as U.S. Withdraws
KABUL, Afghanistan — Western spy agencies are evaluating and courting regional leaders outside the Afghan government who might be able to provide intelligence about terrorist ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Marise Payne and Antony Blinken call for ‘real transparency’ from China on Covid origins
Foreign Minister Marise Payne and US secretary of state Antony Blinken have called for greater transparency from China over the origins of SARSCov2, amid growing interest in t...
By Richard Fontaine