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U.S. Campaign to Ban Huawei Overseas Stumbles as Allies Resist
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The Trump administration’s aggressive campaignto prevent countries from using Huawei and other Chinese telecommunications equipment in their next-generation wireless networks ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Russian oligarch and Putin ally sues Treasury, demands lifting of U.S. sanctionsRussian billionaire Oleg Deripaska sued the Treasury Department and Secretary Steven Mnuchin in U.S. federal court to demand the lifting of remaining U.S. sanctions against hi...
By Peter Harrell
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Trump administration’s new Arctic defense strategy expected to zero in on concerns about ChinaThe Trump administration is drafting a new Arctic defense strategy focusing heavily on competition with China, whose expansion around the world has drawn increasing scrutiny f...
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
Defense / Transatlantic Security
At Trump’s Pentagon, Empty Offices Are the New NormalThe resignation of two senior Pentagon officials last week brings the number of vacancies and posts filled on a temporary basis at the U.S. Department of Defense to a new high...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Jim Townsend
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Plan to charge allies for US troop presence carries risks for Americans in North AfricaPresident Donald Trump’s reported plan to charge allies for US military bases could jeopardize access agreements that were set up after the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, ...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops
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For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren’t paying enough. Now he wants to get even, and then some. Under White House direc...
By Jim Townsend
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The Trump administration quietly corrects its diplomatic slight of the E.U.
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On Monday, two months after news broke that Washington had downgraded the diplomatic status of the European Union mission to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to the Euro...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Russia, Europe and the USA
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor and James Townsend from the Center for a New American Security discuss varying perceptions and policies across Europe with regard to threats posed by Rus...
By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Kremlin seeks more control over internet in Russia
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Russia is taking steps to tighten its grip on the internet within its borders, as the nation’s legislature advanced legislation this week that would test temporarily disconnec...
By LtCol Colin Smith
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Allies wary of Shanahan's assurances with looming presence of Trump
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U.S. allies were apprehensive about acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in his first meeting with NATO defense officials, with questions about the former Boeing executiv...
By Jim Townsend
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In Mattis’s Shadow, Acting Pentagon Chief Tries to Reassure NATO Allies
On his first international trip as Pentagon head, Patrick M. Shanahan entered NATO headquarters on Wednesday with a key question hanging over him: Would he be the stalwart all...
By Rachel Rizzo & Jim Townsend
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In NATO debut, acting Pentagon chief promises unity to skeptical Europe
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In his NATO debut this week, acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan sought to reassure skeptical U.S. allies about transatlantic strains over defense spending, arms control...
By Jim Townsend
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Nancy Pelosi named in big US delegation to Munich forum, but government shutdown looms
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The U.S. is set to send its largest congressional delegation yet to the 2019 Munich Security Conference, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence, bu...
By Jim Townsend
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Questions linger over Deripaska's Rusal influence after U.S. dealThe U.S. Treasury believes it can curb the influence of Oleg Deripaska over aluminum giant Rusal despite concerns the Russian oligarch may still be able to pull the strings of...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
The US is withdrawing from a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. An arms race might be next.The Trump administration just announced it will officially withdraw from an aging nuclear missile treaty with Russia, a move that could kick-start an arms race and threaten th...
By Eric Sayers
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The un-diplomat
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Richard Grenell arrived in the German capital as Donald Trump’s ambassador last year with a reputation as a diplomatic bad boy. A Fox News commentator and former aide to John ...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery.
The first time they met was in Germany. President Trump took his interpreter’s notes afterward and ordered him not to disclose what he heard to anyone. Later that night, at a ...
By Victoria Nuland
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Trump and NATO Show Rare Unity in Confronting Russia’s Arms Treaty Violation
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The Trump administration and NATO, which have been antagonists more often than not, presented an unusual united front on Tuesday, when U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave...
By Jim Townsend
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President Trump's Meetings (and Cancellations) Dominate G20 Headlines
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America's trade war with China is on a temporary pause, thanks to conversations at the G20 Summit in Argentina last weekend. Rachel Rizzo, Bacevich Fellow at the Center For a ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Russia, Ukraine And The U.S.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland about Russia, Ukraine and the United States. Listen to the...
By Victoria Nuland
