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As China Leads Quantum Computing Race, U.S. Spies Plan for a World with Fewer Secrets
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Back in 1994, when quantum computers existed only as so much chalk on a blackboard, mathematician Peter Shor invented what may soon prove to be their killer app. Shor trained ...
By Paul Scharre
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Can China Become Self-reliant in Semiconductors?
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The U.S. added China's biggest computer chipmaker SMIC to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies last week, a move that will further widen the gap between China’s c...
By Martijn Rasser
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Nato has joined US in regarding China as a ‘risk’ to security, US envoy says
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America and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization arrived “late to the game” but now see clearly that China is a “risk”, Kay Bailey Hutchison, the US envoy to N...
By Carisa Nietsche
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U.S. Policy on China May Move From ‘America First’ to America & Co.
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In tech, Metcalfe’s Law posits that a network becomes more useful in proportion to the number of its users, squared. That means big networks are much more valuable than small ...
By Martijn Rasser
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The Biden duo tasked with rallying America's allies
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The announcement of President-elect Joe Biden's long-time aide Antony Blinken as his choice of secretary of state last month was welcomed by the foreign policy establishment i...
By Martijn Rasser
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The United States has closed at least 10 bases around Afghanistan. But drawdown details remain murky.
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The United States has closed at least 10 bases across Afghanistan since the signing of a deal with the Taliban in February, according to Afghan and U.S. officials, part of a d...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Biden will likely have to reimagine the future of U.S. economic leadership in Asia, says expert
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The Biden administration will likely have to reimagine the future of U.S. economic leadership in Asia-Pacific following two massive free trade agreements signed by countries i...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Afghan Troop Withdrawal Puts Biden in a Jam
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As President Donald Trump tries to end America’s longest war, he has settled on a compromise. Instead of withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, as he boast...
By Jim Golby
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Trump’s just-announced troop drawdown from Afghanistan and Iraq, explained
President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing a few thousand more service members home but still falling short of his promi...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump will leave office foiled by the North Korea nuclear problem. Will Biden fare better?
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President Trump’s cool-headed nuclear envoy told the North Koreans it was “a window of opportunity.” Here was a U.S. president willing to venture far outside traditional diplo...
By Duyeon Kim
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One Big Challenge for Biden? China’s Push for Tech Supremacy
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As America staggered through the final stretch of a bitter and divisive US presidential election last month, China was putting the finishing touches on carefully drawn plans f...
By Eric Sayers
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Instead of learning from South Korea’s coronavirus example, Trump is lying about it
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The Trump White House doesn’t think the pandemic can be contained, but South Korea shows it is possible. Rather than learn from its example, President Trump and his officials ...
By Kristine Lee
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The PLAʼs Unlikely Wingman
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In May of this year, an 84-year-old inmate in a North Carolina federal prison died from Covid-19. Dongfan Greg Chungʼs death barely registered on the local news, but Chung hel...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Top White House Official Criticizes ‘Totalitarian’ Xi in Chinese
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A senior White House official delivered a speech in Mandarin attacking Xi Jinping’s “totalitarianism” and calling on the Chinese people to research the “truth” about the count...
By Jordan Schneider
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As US Military Moves Into Palau, China Watches Intently
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The United States is stepping up its military presence and activity in and around the small island nation of Palau in the Philippine Sea, a strategic location coveted by Penta...
By Eric Sayers
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US policy toward North Korea under Joe Biden: pageantry out, pragmatism in
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US President Donald Trump’s unorthodox approach to North Korea saw him threaten “fire and fury” and ramp up sanctions, then meet dictator Kim Jong-un and exchange “beautiful” ...
By Van Jackson
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North Korea detention like the ‘dark ages’, report says
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North Korea’s pretrial detention system is rife with forced labour, sexual abuse and filthy prison conditions, according to testimony obtained by Human Rights Watch. The new ...
By Duyeon Kim
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North Korea parades huge new ICBM, but Kim Jong Un stresses deterrent nature
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North Korea showed off what appeared to be a huge, new intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade Saturday, although leader Kim Jong Un stressed the deterrent nat...
By Duyeon Kim
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Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal announcement takes US officials by surprise
Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he wants to bring all US troops home from Afghanistan by Christmas – a plan that came as a surprise to administration officials and ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Inside the US campaign to cut China out of the tech supply chain
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It was a hot summer morning in Taipei when several officials from the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. embassy, visited the top management of a major tech compa...
By Martijn Rasser
