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Hamas Is Hoarding Vast Amounts of Fuel as Gaza Hospitals Run Low, U.S. Officials Say
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The U.N. has issued almost daily warnings that its Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East will not be able to operate humanitarian services, including...
By Jonathan Lord
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Technology & National Security
Why Biden’s AI Executive Order Only Goes So FarThe Secretary of Commerce has been tasked with defining the AI models that are sufficiently dangerous to qualify for these requirements. As it stands, experts don’t know how t...
By Paul Scharre
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Will the War in Gaza Spill Over to the Middle East?
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“Tehran would be wise to caution restraint to its regional proxies and partners, as Washington has made clear that Tehran will be held responsible for the actions of Hezbollah...
By Jonathan Lord
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Technology & National Security
Deepfake Video Impersonates VOA Russian Service Anchor, Underscoring AI ConcernsDoctoring news broadcasts can be an effective disinformation strategy because “news anchors are the face of trust in conventional media,” said Bill Drexel, who works on AI at ...
By Bill Drexel
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The Race to Regulate
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A large U.S. delegation will also travel to Bletchley Park this week, where the British government is hosting its AI Safety Summit. The UK’s decision to include China in the s...
By Jacob Stokes
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Is Crypto Financing Terrorism?
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Alex Zerden, founder of the risk advisory firm Capitol Peak Strategies and a former official at the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, told DealBook th...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Strikes Iranian-Backed Ammo Sites in Syria
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“The President has historically leaned toward restraint, but the recent uptick in attacks forced his hand,” said Jonathan Lord, of the Center for a New American Security. The ...
By Jonathan Lord
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South China Sea Crisis Flares Up as Australian Leader Heads to Washington
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That assistance perhaps should entail a U.S. escort for the Philippine supply ships, according to Mazza and another prominent analyst. “That probably is the next step,” said C...
By Lisa Curtis
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U.S. to Bolster Israel’s Missile Defenses
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“I think it [the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel] probably highlights an underlying problem that we were already facing, which is [that] the defense industrial base is not suffi...
By Jonathan Lord
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China's Senior Officials Formally Banished From Elite Politics
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"While Li Shangfu's removal is certainly interesting given other recent high-level removals in the PRC's national security apparatus, I doubt that it will have much effect in ...
By Tom Shugart
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Can America Handle Two Wars, and Maybe a Third?
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China and Russia may offer no substitute for America’s diplomacy, but they will be more than happy to see American discomfiture and will play up the claims of American double ...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Many Reasons Netanyahu May Be Delaying an Israeli Ground Offensive in Gaza
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American officials have supported Israel’s desire to destroy Hamas while also putting pressure on Israeli leaders to proceed with caution, minimize civilian casualties and try...
By Jonathan Lord
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Philippines Summons Chinese Ambassador over S China Sea Collisions
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The U.S. “reaffirms that Article IV of the 1951 U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty extends to armed attacks on Philippine armed forces, public vessels, and aircraft – incl...
By Tom Shugart
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The Laidback Australian City Key to Countering China
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Defence strategist Becca Wasser has spent years wargaming what might happen in the event of a conflict in the region. In most of the scenarios she's run, China does attempt mi...
By Becca Wasser
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Biden’s ‘Bear Hug Diplomacy’ in Israel Risks Stoking Anger in Arab World
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But Jonathan Lord, director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security, said it was important for the U.S. to stand by its ally after the ho...
By Jonathan Lord
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Biden Turns a Few More Screws on China’s Chip Industry
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“I don’t think that they shift the landscape as significantly” as last year’s, said Emily Kilcrease, director of the energy, economics, and security program at the Center for ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
How the West—and Israel Itself—Inadvertently Funded HamasThe flow of money illustrates the conundrum Israel and the West have faced since 2007, when Hamas wrested control of the strip from its rival, the internationally recognized P...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Targets Crypto Mixers Over Money Laundering Risks
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FinCEN’s proposal could have a chilling effect by further associating certain crypto activities with terrorist financing and money laundering, according to Alex Zerden, a form...
By Alex Zerden
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S. Hits Hamas Financiers With Sanctions in Response to Israel Attack“The practical effect of this is that it makes it almost impossible for these individuals and entities to interact with the U.S. financial system, and by virtue of that, with ...
By Alex Zerden
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Biden Faces Physical Risks in Flying to War-Torn Middle East
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“Being in an active area of hostilities, they have to look very carefully at the threats that Israel is facing now, understanding that the president will be on the ground,” sa...
By Jonathan Lord
