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Is Taiwan a bargaining-chip for Trump on China?
The president-elect upset almost 40 years of US practice in the region by taking a call from the Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen. It was an unprecedented breach of the protocol...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump’s choice for top China diplomat has long ties to Xi
DES MOINES, Iowa — It may seem odd for the governor of a lightly populated agricultural state to be chosen as U.S. ambassador to China, especially amid escalating talk of a tr...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump and China on collision course
In speaking on the telephone with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and lashing out at China on Twitter over the weekend, President-elect Donald Trump did more than bewilder lea...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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National Security Human Capital
Air Force One Costs Billions of Dollars Because It’s a Flying White HouseDonald Trump took aim at one of the most visible emblems of the American presidency with his attack on plans for a new Air Force One, turning the iconoclastic message that got...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Trump hires a third general, raising concerns about heavy military influencecaPresident-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly as secretary of homeland security, officials familiar with the decision said Wednesday, recruiting ...
By Phillip Carter
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Too many generals? Trump's newest nomination causing jitters
President-elect Trump's selection of retired Marine Gen. John Kelly to be secretary of homeland security brings the number of former generals on his national security team to ...
By Alice Hunt Friend
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Sec. William Perry Honored with the CNAS Distinguished National Security Leadership Award
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Trump’s ‘Unpredictable Starting Now’ Foreign Policy Is Here
More than six weeks before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is already carrying out his promise to make U.S. foreign policy less predictable with a series of mov...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Exxon CEO Now a Contender for Donald Trump’s Secretary of State
President-elect Donald Trump is widening the circle of candidates for secretary of state and will interview more prospects this week, transition officials said, a sign that af...
By Phillip Carter
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National Security Human Capital
Mattis isn’t just a popular general anymore. He’s an icon faced with running the entire Pentagon.Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Gitto was less than two weeks removed from his 20th birthday when a Taliban sniper hit him two times at a checkpoint in Marja, Afghanistan, in April 2...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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CNAS Press Note: Trump’s Taiwan Call
Following President-elect Donald Trump’s conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Asia-Pacific Security Program Director P...
By Patrick M. Cronin, Mira Rapp-Hooper & Harry Krejsa
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Press Release
Defense / Technology & National Security
CNAS Commentary: Trump Administration Defense PrioritiesAs President-elect Donald Trump weighs his options for the next secretary of defense and for his defense agenda, CNAS Future of Warfare Initiative Director Paul Scharre and CN...
By Paul Scharre & Lauren Fish
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National Security Human Capital
Trump to nominate retired Gen. James Mattis to lead PentagonWASHINGTON (AP) — Breaking once more from presidential custom, Donald Trump is turning to a military man to steer the U.S. military, choosing retired Gen. James Mattis, who wi...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital
AP EXPLAINS: Why officers can't easily become Pentagon headsWASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, will need more than the usual Senate confirmation before being a...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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The Battle for Aleppo
Guest host Jeff Glor leads a discussion of the ongoing battle for Aleppo, Syria, with Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for New American Security, and James Jeffrey of...
By Richard Fontaine
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National Security Human Capital
To keep promises to veterans, Trump taps Koch-backed groupPresident-elect Trump is leaning on a once-obscure group backed by conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch as he seeks to make good on a campaign promise to overhaul ...
By Phillip Carter
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Technology & National Security
War Game Confirms Major Gaps in U.S. Army’s Cyber CapabilitiesU.S. forces participating in a multinational war game were tested with a barrage of cyber attacks, electronic-warfare jamming and drones that confirmed major gaps in capabilit...
By Ben FitzGerald
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Obama Administration Races To Shore Up Iran Nuclear Deal
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Happy Thanksgiving. Congressional Republicans are urging the Obama administration not to loosen sanctions on Iran during Obama's last two months in office....
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The avid reading habits of Trump’s potential Secretary of Defense, James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis
Donald Trump has professed that he's not much of a reader. He told The Washington Post over the summer that he had not read biographies of presidents because he does not have ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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The Military Parade for Donald Trump Has Come Early
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military parade for Donald Trump has come early. Two months before Inauguration Day festivities, an extraordinary number of recently retired generals, i...
By Richard Fontaine
