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CNAS Releases New Report “Phishing in Troubled Waters: Confronting Cyber Espionage Across the Pacific and the Strait of Taiwan”
Washington, April 10 – As President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping conclude a summit featuring extensive conversations on bilateral commerce, the Center for a N...
By Harry Krejsa & Hannah Suh
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Trump Kicks off Florida Meetings With Chinese President
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened their high-stakes summit at Trump's Florida beach resort Thursday, with the urgent threat of North Korea's nucle...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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North Korea’s actions could force US-China cooperation
"I hope North Korea does act up, because it’ll actually drive China and the U.S. to cooperate even more on dealing with North Korea,” said Patrick Cronin, senior director of t...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Technology & National Security
Susan Rice, Michael Flynn, and the politics of surveillanceRep. Trey Gowdy (R) of South Carolina leaned forward and addressed FBI director James Comey in a pointed manner. The congressman – a booster of the military, a former prosecut...
By Adam Klein
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Trump's approach to the Middle East
This episode offers broad analysis of the current situation in the Middle East and the choices the new administration faces. We also look at the state of the US State Departme...
By Nicholas Heras
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The King of Jordan Meets the King of Queens
U.S. President Donald Trump met Jordanian King Abdullah at the White House Wednesday. The meeting was hotly anticipated, and not without reason — a president who ran on the id...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Donald Trump’s chemical reaction to Syria attack
It was a dramatic way to herald a potential policy shift that could change the course of the six-year- old war in Syria and the future of its dictator, Bashar al-Assad. When U...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Tested by Syria, North Korea CrisesA confluence of crises in Syria and North Korea is forcing President Donald Trump to re-evaluate his fledgling foreign policy, deciding which advisers he will listen to and wh...
By Richard Fontaine
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Syria likely responsible for chemical attack condemned by President Trump
U.S. radar showed Syrian warplanes in the vicinity of the suspected chemical-weapon attack that killed dozens of people in northern Syria on Tuesday, according to a senior Def...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump Says Chemical Attack In Syria Crosses Many Lines
Rachel Martin talks to Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense in the Obama administration, about whether Trump has a clear Syria strategy. Listen below or at NPR....
By Michèle Flournoy
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Carol Deane, President of Starrett City Associates, Joins CNAS Board of Advisors
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced today that Carol Deane, President of Starrett City Associates, has joined the CNAS Board of Advisors. As a member of th...
By Neal Urwitz
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Trump's surprisingly conventional Israel policy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mantra, throughout his career, has been never to give an inch without getting an inch in return. But last week he announced that Is...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Defense experts press Congress for more reforms
A trio of former defense officials on Tuesday pushed lawmakers to keep passing reforms to make the Pentagon more agile and efficient, even as it digests Congress' last batch. ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
April 23: The Day China Launches Its New Aircraft Carrier?China’s first indigenously built aircraft carrier could be set to launch on April 23—the 68th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army Navy. The Type 001A carrier—thought t...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China's Next Aircraft Carrier: Everything We Know (So Far)Construction of China’s third aircraft carrier is well underway at the Jiangnan Changxingdao shipyard in Shanghai. The massive vessel—dubbed the Type 002—is China’s first co...
By Jerry Hendrix
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US praises SDF forces in Syria, calls Turkey ‘great partner’
Top US General Joseph Votel on Saturday praised the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS extremists in Syria. Vote also called Turkey “a great ...
By Nicholas Heras
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National Security Human Capital
Trump makes little headway filling out Pentagon jobsThe hearing this week for President Trump’s Air Force secretary nominee was a rare sight for those monitoring Trump’s progress filling Pentagon positions. Former Rep. Heather...
By Katherine Kidder
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How the US should approach ISIS’ human shield strategy in Raqqah
As local ground forces supported by U.S. led airstrikes close in on two of the Islamic State’s urban holds, Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, there’s growing concern over how ...
By Nicholas Heras
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China’s Xi to hold first meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in April
President Trump said Thursday he faces tough meetings with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a Florida summit next week, one with a full agenda that ranges from Trump's attack...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Technology & National Security
A more connected military means new battlefield glitches, tooThe US Army is embarking on a potentially decade-long quest to prepare soldiers to operate in the Digital Age. In a $52 million initiative to create what it's calling the Inte...
By Richard Danzig