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“It Is Hardly Coincidental”: Did Michael Cohen Scare Trump Into Ghosting Putin?
En route to Buenos Aires on Thursday, Donald Trump had a change of heart. Less than an hour earlier, as he walked across the White House lawn, the president had told reporters...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump abruptly cancels Putin meeting at G-20, citing Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian vessels
Jolting another international summit before it’s even begun, President Trump on Thursday abruptly canceled a much-anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, le...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump may cancel his G20 meeting with Putin
President Donald Trump plans to meet with world leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina this week, including with the heads of Japan, Germany, and China. But t...
By Rachel Rizzo
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How the Trump Administration Stepped Up Pursuit of WikiLeaks’s Assange
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Soon after he took over as C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo privately told lawmakers about a new target for American spies: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Intent on fi...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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CNAS Experts: In Paris, Trump Should Mend Relations with Europe to Counterbalance China
Washington, November 9 – This weekend, President Donald Trump will depart for a long-planned trip to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I and ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
How China, Russia Interfere in U.S. ElectionsIn early 2011, U.S. solar panel manufacturing giant Solyndra was considered one of the world's most innovative companies, following an encouraging visit from then-President Ba...
By Ely Ratner
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Two Capitals, One Russian Oligarch: How Oleg Deripaska Is Trying to Escape U.S. SanctionsThis spring, a British lord with deep ties to the governing Conservative Party and a reputation as a do-gooder environmentalist arrived in Washington on an unlikely mission: t...
By Peter Harrell
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Two Eurocrats and Their Trans-Atlantic Quest to Woo Idaho
Henne Schuwer’s job is to understand Washington, D.C. Which is how he found himself in Boise, Idaho, last month. Schuwer, a towering figure with a bushy beard and a wry sense...
By Rachel Rizzo & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump wants to ditch a Cold War treaty that reduced nuclear weapons — that's a bad move, says the Soviet leader who signed it
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the politician who led Soviet Union in its final days, is not personally upset about President Donald Trump's intention to withdraw from the landmark Interm...
By Jim Townsend
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As NATO gets ready for its biggest military exercise in years, things are heating up closer to Russia
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NATO forces are converging on Norway for Trident Juncture, which will be the alliance's largest military exercise in nearly two decades. But military activity has been increas...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO's biggest military exercise in years just started, but Russia may be more worried about 2 countries that aren't members of the alliance
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Trident Juncture officially started Thursday, with some 50,000 troops from all 29 NATO members and Sweden and Finland preparing for drills on land, sea, and in the air from th...
By Jim Townsend
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Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting ElectionsThe United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling them that Amer...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia Linked to Disruptive Industrial Control Malware
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In December, researchers spotted a new family of industrial control malware that had been used in an attack on a Middle Eastern energy plant. Known as Triton, or Trisis, the s...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump says he'll scrap a Cold War-era missile deal with Russia, which could throw 'another hand grenade' into NATO
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At a rally in Nevada on October 20, President Donald Trump said he would pull the US out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty signed by the US and the Soviet Union ...
By Jim Townsend
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Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
‘America First’ doesn’t work without American valuesSaudi Arabia’s apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — and the Trump administration’s haphazard response — is an unmistakable sign that U.S. foreign policy has swung ...
By Vance Serchuk
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China MisdirectionNear the end of September, before the United Nations, President Donald Trump leveled an extraordinary charge: China was attempting to “meddle” and “interfere” in the upcoming ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Putin and Xi Outrank Trump in Global Confidence Poll
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Global opinion of U.S. President Donald Trump has sunk so low that the world now appears to have more confidence in the leadership of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chin...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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A year after his stormy debut at the U.N., Trump will claim foreign policy successes from his brash diplomacy
President Trump had a stormy debut at the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders last September. From the podium of the packed U.N. General Assembly, he blasted Nort...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Moving think tanks beyond the Beltway
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For the next two months, as official Washington empties out into the hinterlands, D.C.-based think tanks should do the same. While members of Congress and their staffs switch ...
By Julianne Smith
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As Russians describe ‘verbal agreements’ at summit, U.S. officials scramble for clarity
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Two days after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials offered a string of assertions about what the two leaders had achieved. “Impo...
By Richard Fontaine
