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Technology & National Security
A Dirty Word In The U.S., 'Automation' Is A Buzzword In ChinaGerry Wong graduated from MIT with his bachelor's degree, his master's degree and his Ph.D, but in 2000 he left the United States and went home to China start a telecom equipm...
By Gregory C. Allen
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'It's a Mistake to Underestimate China'
BEIJING—At the recent APEC CEO Summit in Vietnam, President Donald Trump said the United States would refocus its existing development efforts in Asia toward infrastructure in...
By Daniel Kliman
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Trump said he would strike one-on-one trade deals. That’s not happening.
As he traveled across Asia, President Trump touted a flurry of multibillion-dollar military sales and one-off business deals with nations he visited. Upon his return to the Wh...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Industry Can Build 355 Ships, But Which Ones?
WASHINGTON: Sure, American industry can build the 355-ship fleet both Trump and the admirals want, three former Navy Secretaries said today. We can even build it a lot faster ...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Navy Is Still Searching For A Plan To Reach A 355-Ship Fleet
n 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump made the idea of building up a 350-ship Navy a cornerstone of his stump speech, complaining that the U.S. military was failing...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Press Note
Technology & National Security
CNAS Press Note: Governmental Meetings on Lethal Autonomous WeaponsWashington, November 14 – This week member states begin discussions at the United Nations on lethal autonomous weapons systems – weapons that would choose their own targets. P...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Press Note: What Matters in the New NDAA?
Press Note
Washington, November 14 – With the House and Senate Armed Services committees having finalized the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, Center for a New American Security ...
By Susanna V. Blume
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CNAS Commentary: Responding to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Press Note
Washington, November 13 – The past week has seen the beginning of a U.S. response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – a trillion-dollar infrastructure play by Beijing ...
By Daniel Kliman & Harry Krejsa
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Technology & National Security
The US Shot Down a Mysterious Enemy Drone Over SyriaA US Air Force F-15 jet fighter has shot down a large, armed drone that attacked pro-US forces near At Tanf, a strategic town in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq. ...
By Paul Scharre
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Expert Views: After ISIS, Who Controls Syria’s Natural Resources?
AT THE HEIGHT of its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the so-called Islamic State was making millions of dollars every day from harvesting the output of seized oil a...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Navy’s Triple-Carrier Pacific Deployment Was an Accident, Not a Power Play
The greatest concentration of American naval power in a decade is an accident of scheduling and navigation, according to the U.S. Navy. But the coincidental convergence of thr...
By Jerry Hendrix
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President Trump Visits Asia
On this edition of Encounter, Walter Lohman, Director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation and Patrick Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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China Has A Breakthrough in Spy-Proof Quantum Communications
A team of Chinese researchers say they have completed the first long-distance quantum secure direct communication, a critical step toward sending messages that are truly safe ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Duterte May Stand Accused Of Extralegal Killings, But Trump Will Meet With Him Anyway
WASHINGTON – Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has been accused of ordering the killings of thousands of his citizens in his “war on drugs.” He has told human rights activ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Finland woos US with more muscular defense role
HELSINKI — Finland and its neighbor Sweden have centered their defense strategies for decades on neutrality and refraining from participating with the big military alliances o...
By Jim Townsend
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An Emboldened Xi Will Greet a Troubled Trump in China
President Donald Trump arrives in China with a first-year record that includes sagging approval ratings and an investigation into Russia’s connections to his campaign, but als...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Sexism on America’s Front Lines
Laura Rosenberger remembers telling a senior State Department official that she was going on a beach vacation. He responded by saying how much he’d enjoy thinking about her we...
By Julianne Smith & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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CNAS Press Notes on the President’s Trip to Asia
Press Note
Washington, November 2 – As President Trump prepares for his critical trip to Asia, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Asia-Pacific Security Program has prepared a ...
By Patrick M. Cronin & Daniel Kliman
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The Swedish ambassador’s search for answers in Trump country
The new Swedish ambassador to the United States was wedged into the back seat of a Honda Civic headed south out of Pittsburgh in search of some true-believing, climate-change-...
By Julianne Smith
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National Security Human Capital
Members of Congress join the 21CF-CNAS screening of Nat Geo’s ‘The Long Road Home’On Nov. 1, 21CF and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) hosted the first event in a new national security-themed film and television series in Washington, D.C., feat...
By Phillip Carter
