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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Pentagon to Disclose More Drones in Secretive China ProgramThe Pentagon, seeking to balance deterrence of China’s Pacific ambitions, industrial base concerns, and secrecy, plans to reveal as soon as this week more details about its “R...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Defense / Technology & National Security
Generating an EdgeEmerging capabilities such as AI and machine learning are transforming strategic cooperation, competition and conflict throughout the Indo-Pacific and beyond, military command...
By Paul Scharre
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Trump Appointees Signal a New Hawkish China Policy
In a sweeping shift toward a hard-line approach, the new Trump administration is tipped to put some of Washington’s most ardent China critics in key foreign policy positions —...
By Richard Fontaine
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South Korean President Takes Up Golf Again to Forge a Bond with Trump
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has dusted off his golf clubs in an attempt to forge a bond with President-elect Donald Trump, an avid lover of the game. The presidential...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Loyalty Is Common Thread as Trump Fills Foreign Policy, Immigration JobsPresident-elect Donald Trump is stocking his cabinet and White House staff with loyalists with deep congressional experience who back his agenda on immigration and foreign pol...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
With Only Two Months Left, What Are Biden’s Options for Ukraine?With little more than two months left in the White House, Joe Biden is running out of time to expedite the delivery of funds and weaponry needed to ensure Ukraine can stay in ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Trump Looks to Woo — and Divide — Putin, Xi and KimPresident-elect Trump is expected to deploy his trademark mix of belligerent threats and friendly relations with some of the world’s dictators as he seeks to break up the deep...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump’s Expected Military Reset: Culture War Counteroffensive
President-elect Trump is expected to transform the U.S. military from the Pentagon, with promises to slash spending, thin the top ranks and roll back efforts to make the milit...
By Carlton Haelig
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National Security Human Capital Program
What Military Personnel Policies Could Change Under President TrumpWhen President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, he may quickly reverse military policies regarding abortion and transgender service members, though recent pushes in...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Trump Claims Kim Jong Un ‘Misses’ Him. But He Faces a Very Different North Korean Leader This Time Around
No United States leader has handled relations with North Korea quite like Donald Trump. The former president went from threatening Kim Jong Un with “fire and fury” if the Nort...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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U.S. Diplomats Brace as Trump Plans Foreign Policy Shake-Up in Wider Purge of Government
The US foreign policy establishment is set for one of the biggest shake-ups in years as Donald Trump has vowed to both revamp US policy abroad and to root out the so-called “d...
By Richard Fontaine
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Technology & National Security
Is This the Biggest Industrial Espionage Campaign in History?The FBI is now investigating more instances of Chinese espionage than ever before. Since 2014, there’s been a 1300% increase in counterintelligence cases involving China. US l...
By Sam Howell
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South Korea’s President Denies Wrongdoing in a Growing Scandal
On foreign policy, Yoon — who has worked closely with Washington and Tokyo to solidify security cooperation in the face of North Korean threats — expressed optimism that the t...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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South Korea’s Yoon Praises Trump in Phone Call as Trade Officials Brace for Tariffs
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol spoke with Donald Trump on Thursday and congratulated him on winning the U.S. presidency on the "Make America Great Again" slogan as offic...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Years After Historic Summits, Trump Faces an Emboldened North Korea
Donald Trump has long touted his relationship with Kim Jong Un, but if the U.S. president-elect seeks another summit he will find a North Korean leader emboldened by an expand...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Satellite Photo Shows New Activity at China's Underground Submarine BaseSatellite imagery appears to have captured the activation of a possible damage control system at an underground submarine base for Chinese nuclear-powered submarines operating...
By Tom Shugart
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National Security Human Capital Program
20 Sets of Military Family Members Serving in the National Guard Deploy to JapanTwenty sets of families serving in the Minnesota National Guard deployed to Japan earlier this year. The families are made up of siblings, parents and spouses deployed to the ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Defense / Middle East Security
As Middle East Crisis Grinds On, Pentagon Shows Signs of StrainThe open-ended crisis in the Middle East has begun to squeeze the Pentagon, fueling unease over the U.S. military’s ability to balance imminent threats to American interests t...
By Becca Wasser
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Biden Administration Rushes to Finalize CHIPS Act FundingAs Bloomberg reported, the White House is rushing to wrap up deals with chipmakers like Intel, Samsung and Micron Technology. But Geoffrey Gertz, a senior fellow in the energy...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Export Controls Failed to Keep Cutting-Edge AI Chips from China’s HuaweiTAIPEI, Taiwan — A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn’t look right. Figuring out...
By Emily Kilcrease