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Rubio Expected to Brief New Delhi on Xi-Trump Summit During India Trip
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According to Lisa Curtis of the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), another think tank in Washington, New Delhi is “likely concerned about some of the outcomes of the T...
By Lisa Curtis
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Trump Warns Taiwan Against Declaring Independence from China After Meeting Xi
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Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said the trip ultimately was more about setting a tone than about deliverables, which Trump usually se...
By Jacob Stokes
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China Gains Major Edge on U.S. Amid Iran War, Intelligence Report Finds
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“On balance, the war in Iran is massively improving China’s geopolitical position,” said Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security....
By Jacob Stokes
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Trump’s Man in Central Asia
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“Initially there was concern in New Delhi that he might be stretched too thin or worse, that he might try to play a mediator role between India and Pakistan but that simply ha...
By Lisa Curtis
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How the Trump-Xi Meeting Became ‘The Shrinking Summit’
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“I’m expecting more optics than substance out of the summit,” said Tobin, who’s now a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “I think some of it will be real and mo...
By Liza Tobin
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Trilateral Partners Respond to North Korea’s Missile Threats
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“There have been several alarming signs regarding North Korean nuclear weapons development in the last few weeks,” Lisa Curtis, director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program a...
By Lisa Curtis
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Iran War Hangs Over China Summit
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“Trump will have to juggle briefings and updates on two different, multifaceted sets of policy issues at once, all while a bit jet-lagged,” said Jacob Stokes, deputy director ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Military Drills on the Edge: U.S. And Allies Test Capabilities near Asia’s Flash Points
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"U.S., Japan, Philippines trilateral cooperation is integral to any sort of collective deterrence throughout the first island chain," which includes Japan and the Philippines,...
By Lisa Curtis
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U.S. Pauses ‘Project Freedom’ as Trump Seeks Way out of Hormuz Impasse
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“If he settles for a narrow deal on the strait and postpone[s] the nuclear talks, the U.S. gives up the leverage generated by blockading Iranian ports. If he holds out for a m...
By Richard Fontaine
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Quad Summit Plan Turns Uneasy as India Pushes Ahead Without Top Leaders: Sources
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Lisa Curtis, who served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for South and Central Asia during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021, argued that trying to ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Can Philippines Become Critical Minerals Powerhouse with Help from U.S., Japan?
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The report, written by CNAS Indo-Pacific Security Programme executive director Lisa Curtis and research assistant Ryan Claffey, said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Phili...
By Lisa Curtis & Ryan Claffey
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How Lessons from Iran War Could Shape Mainland China’s Calculus on Taiwan
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“The U.S. military really does remain operationally exquisite, especially in joint operations, [something] that China isn’t capable of doing because we have the experience,” s...
By Jacob Stokes
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Trump Finds His Offramp with Iran. But the Causes of War Remain Unresolved.“Iran remains in the control of the Strait, which was not the case before the war,” said Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security, a Was...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Art of the Deal Eludes Donald Trump in Iran
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“The three broad choices are to escalate, walk away or cut a deal,” said Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think-tank. “The p...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pakistan’s Largest Copper-Gold Mine Project Delayed by War, Militants
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Lisa Curtis, director of the Indo-Pacific security program at the Center for a New American Security, said the prospect of developing Pakistan's critical mineral resources has...
By Lisa Curtis
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Is ‘Voice of America’ Over?
“If you don’t have international broadcasting that has that American perspective, then [viewers] will be getting the Russian perspective, the Chinese perspective, the Iranian ...
By Lisa Curtis
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South Korea, U.S., Europe Not Learning Lessons of Drone War in Ukraine, Roundtable Experts Warn
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Go Myong-hyun, an [adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security], said ties between Seoul and Moscow that were once largely transactional have taken on new ...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Why Delayed US-China Summit Raises Stakes for Takaichi Ahead of White House Visit
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Richard Fontaine, a former State Department and National Security Council (NSC) official, said Trump “is likely to express some frustration” at the situation. “If the summit c...
By Richard Fontaine & Lisa Curtis
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Ex-Member of Trump Administration Says Iran Is Trump’s Top Priority
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In an interview on Tuesday, Curtis noted that when the summit was first planned, its significance lay in that it would take place two weeks before Trump was scheduled to meet ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Takaichi Says Trump Visit to Be ‘Extremely Difficult’ After Warship Spat
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“It takes some pressure off of the summit and allows the two leaders to engage a broader set of topics and have a discussion about Iran without focusing on a very specific dem...
By Jacob Stokes
