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After Venezuela, Trump Offers Hints About What Could Be Next
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Barely 48 hours after toppling the leader of Venezuela and asserting U.S. rights to the country’s oil, President Trump threatened Colombia with a similar fate, declared that C...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Is Tying His Legacy to Whatever Happens in Venezuela
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Possibly, just possibly, Donald Trump just scored a foreign-policy success that could define his legacy. By striking Venezuela and whisking away Nicolás Maduro (along with Mad...
By Richard Fontaine
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America’s Strategic Investment Plan in Contested Region
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The State Department has set a new tone for the United States’ priorities when it comes to foreign assistance in the Indo‑Pacific region, where the country is locked in a batt...
By Derek Grossman
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
China’s Plans to Dominate at Sea in 2026China, a top maritime rival of the United States, is expected to continue rapid naval modernization and expand its presence at sea in the new year, following the fielding of n...
By Tom Shugart
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Chinese Military Threat Grows, According to Pentagon ReportChairman Xi Jinping continues to invest heavily in the People's Liberation Army (PLA), as China's military approaches his 2027 "centennial military building goal"....
By Tom Shugart
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U.S. Envoy Backs ‘Free, Open’ Indo-Pacific at Quad Meeting in Beijing amid PLA Taiwan Drills
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In a pointed display of diplomatic unity, the US ambassador to China announced that the envoys of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) nations – the United States, Australia...
By Lisa Curtis
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
China Hawks Dig in to Bitcoin MiningAmerican national security hawks, long wary of Chinese technology, have turned their sights towards a new target: bitcoin mining....
By Daniel Remler & David Feith
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U.S. Nvidia Chips to China: What Does That Mean for the AI Race?
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During the Cold War, U.S. policy on export controls for advanced technology meant that the United States prevented sales to adversaries to stifle competition as rival countrie...
By Jacob Stokes
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U.S. Strategy Shifts Focus to China, Urges South Korea to Redesign Security with Nuclear Options
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2025 NSS omits North Korea denuclearization, acknowledges nuclear reality, calls for South Korea to enhance deterrence through potential nuclear armament and increased defense...
By Lisa Curtis
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
See How a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Could UnfoldFive miles off Taiwan’s coast, ZTD-05 amphibious vehicles roll out of ships and zip over the water amid a hail of artillery fire. The Chinese soldiers inside have their orders...
By Tom Shugart
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New US National Security Strategy—Three Things It Says About China
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China took center stage in U.S. President Donald Trump's newly released national security strategy, which outlines his security priorities for the coming years....
By Derek Grossman
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‘Trump Corollary’ Reboots Us Foreign Policy
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The U.S. National Security Strategy that just dropped puts the Western Hemisphere at its center, trashes Europe and sends mixed signals on China and India. On a snowy Washingt...
By Lisa Curtis
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
As Trump Pushes to End Ukraine War, Europe Toils to Have a SayFor Europe’s leaders, the weekend began with another threat to their relevance, courtesy of President Trump. Would the Americans really force Ukraine to capitulate, embrace Pr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
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More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that of...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump-Xi ‘Amazing’ Summit Brings Tactical Truce, Not Major ResetU.S. President Donald Trump hailed a meeting with China's Xi Jinping as "amazing" and "12" on a 10-point scale, but the agreement the two leaders reached appears to be no more...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
Republican Lawmaker Says Don’t Give China Nvidia’s Blackwell ChipA leading Republican voice in Congress on China policy said on Wednesday that selling Nvidia's best AI chip to China "would be akin (to) giving Iran weapons grade uranium", as...
By Tim Fist
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Has Made U.S.-China Relations All About TradeUnder Trump, trade has come to be the dominant theme of the relationship between the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies....
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
‘Grand Bargain’ Between Trump and Xi UnlikelyThe Trump-Xi meeting is unlikely to result in the “grand bargain” that some may hope for, said Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Secur...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Under Trump, Voice of America Is Down but Not Out
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For nearly two years, Voice of America, a federal news agency dedicated to projecting American values around the world, provided intensive Persian-language coverage of Israel’...
By Lisa Curtis
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Trump Leaves Behind a Reeling Washington to Chase a Deal With China
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President Trump is heading to Asia on Friday evening at a moment of turmoil at home: He has deployed an aircraft carrier to Latin America, cut off trade talks with Canada, raz...
By Richard Fontaine
