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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China’s Disinformation Campaign Targets Virus, Researcher SaysAn army of bot accounts linked to an alleged Chinese government-backed propaganda campaign is spreading disinformation on social media about coronavirus and other topics, incl...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 eraGlobal trade watchers breathed a sigh of relief on January 15, 2020. After two years of threats, tariffs and tweets, there was finally a truce in the trade war between the U....
By Anja Manuel
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Democrats demand intel on coronavirus origins
Top Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration should share with Congress the allegedly “enormous” evidence showing that the coronavirus sprang from a Chinese lab. Oth...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Chinese propaganda tactics shifting to elevate, amplify Russian disinformation
Chinese Communist Party tactics have shifted to imitate classic Russian disinformation campaigns, as well as amplify bogus stories from Moscow to pin the blame for coronavirus...
By Kristine Lee
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Who is winning the China-US race to run the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic?
In 2018, President Xi Jinping said China would “take an active part in leading the reform of the global governance system”, as part of an effort to build “a community with a s...
By Kristine Lee
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Matthew Pottinger faced Communist China’s intimidation as a reporter. He’s now at the White House shaping Trump’s hard line policy toward Beijing.
In February, as President Trump was projecting confidence that China’s Xi Jinping had the coronavirus under control, his deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger rec...
By Ely Ratner
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Jack Ma: The billionaire trying to stop coronavirus (and fix China's reputation)The richest man in China opened his own Twitter account last month, in the middle of the Covid-19 outbreak. So far, every one of his posts has been devoted to his unrivalled c...
By Ashley Feng
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Praised For Curbing COVID-19, New Zealand's Leader Eases Country's Strict Lockdown
With many countries reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand is proving a model of recovery and is lifting part of its strict lockdown. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern h...
By Van Jackson
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Chinese Agents Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say
The alarming messages came fast and furious in mid-March, popping up on the cellphone screens and social media feeds of millions of Americans grappling with the onset of the c...
By Kristine Lee
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Kim Jong Un returns to spotlight as questions over North Korean leader's fate arise
Nuclear-armed North Korea returned to the spotlight Tuesday after contradictory media reports said leader Kim Jong Un was in critical condition while others denied he was grav...
By Van Jackson
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New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet
The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest test of political leadership the world has ever witnessed. Every leader on the planet is facing the same potential threat. Every le...
By Van Jackson
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Pentagon Getting a Push to Shift Resources to Asia
A push to shift U.S. military resources to Asia to counter Chinese influence is drawing new support in Congress, where a leading lawmaker wants to compel the Pentagon to inves...
By Eric Sayers
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Launches New Initiative: America and the Post-Pandemic WorldThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a major initiative on America and the Post-Pandemic World. Leveraging CNAS’ unique multidisciplinar...
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China Wins: Why Trump's WHO Funding Cut is a Gift to Beijing
When he accused the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday of going soft on China over the COVID-19 pandemic and suspended U.S. payments to the agency, President Donald Tr...
By Kristine Lee
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Trump’s critique of WHO may be a diversion, but it resonates beyond the White House
President Trump is not happy with the World Health Organization. He is not the only one. On Tuesday, in the middle of a global pandemic, Trump announced that he is freezing f...
By Kristine Lee
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The U.S. vs. China: Who Is Winning the Key Technology Battles?In a world where geopolitical power is increasingly linked to technological advancement, the U.S. has long led its rivals. American companies make some of the world’s fastest ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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On China and the World Health Organisation, Donald Trump wants to have it both ways
On 7 April, amid a global pandemic, Donald Trump returned to familiar territory: bashing China and an international institution. “The WHO really blew it,” the US president twe...
By Kristine Lee
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
America does not want China to dominate 5G mobile networksIn the 1990s America’s telecoms industry was split between two rival factions. On one side were the “bellheads”, named after the former telephone monopolist, Bell, and represe...
By Elsa B. Kania
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ROK-US defense cost-sharing talks remain at standstill
The defense cost-sharing talks between Korea and the United States are still showing no signs of progress, raising concerns that the furlough of Korean employees of the U.S. F...
By Van Jackson
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Indo-Pacific Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
As Trump faces heat on coronavirus response, Republicans try to elevate China’s role in domestic political debateFor months, national Republicans hoping to wrest back control of the House this fall have targeted first-term Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), hitting him on his vote to impeach Pre...
By Richard Fontaine