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Indo-Pacific Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic valuesThe setting was the Rose Garden. The topic was China. And for President Trump, the goal of the White House event Friday was to condemn the communist nation as a threat to demo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS, CERL, and APPC Announce Collaboration on Protecting the Integrity of the 2020 Election against Foreign InterferenceThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law (CERL) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (...
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Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Surveillance-tech restrictions stripped from Uyghur bill could end up in NDAAThe Senate’s passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act was the culmination of a months-long effort to hold Beijing accountable for a sweeping crackdown against its minorit...
By Martijn Rasser
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Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Gathering intelligence during a pandemicThe Intelligence Community by many accounts was on to the possibility of a pandemic like this one for a long time. Well, now that it’s here, what effect might the pandemic be ...
By Martijn Rasser
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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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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
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Indo-Pacific Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Coronavirus rattles America's national security priesthoodIf the U.S. foreign policy establishment were a high school cafeteria, the popular kids would be the terrorism and nuclear weapons analysts. And the global health specialists ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Trump’s ‘Disaster Diplomacy’ Has So Far Had Few ResultsAs the coronavirus raced across the globe earlier this year, the Trump administration offered assistance to a pair of longtime American enemies, Iran and North Korea. The resp...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
How the Pandemic Will EndThree months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more wh...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Richard Danzig
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Responds: Coronavirus Outbreak Tests Every Aspect of U.S. and International SecurityAs regions across the U.S. announce states of emergency and a growing list of countries restrict travel, close schools, and quarantine citizens, the economic costs of the coro...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg, Paul Scharre, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, COL Sarah Albrycht, Kristine Lee, Peter Harrell, John Hughes, Rachel Ziemba, Michael Horowitz, Elsa B. Kania, Will Mackenzie, Ashley Feng, Kaleigh Thomas, Carisa Nietsche, Emma Moore, Joshua Fitt, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth & Ainikki Riikonen
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
When fighting bureaucracy means disbanding a pandemics officeWhen PBS journalist Yamiche Alcindor recently asked President Donald Trump about his decision to disband the National Security Council’s office for pandemics, Mr. Trump said t...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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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 “America Competes 2020”The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today launched “America Competes 2020,” a Center-wide initiative to renew American competitiveness at home and abroad. Amid incre...
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Trump administration vacancies pose risk to national security during Iran escalation, experts saySpeaking from the White House this week amid stoked tensions with Iran, President Trump was flanked by nearly a dozen men involved in our nation’s defense — a move meant to co...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
FBI’s Wray Acts Fast to Make Changes After Scathing ReportFBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered more than 40 changes in how the bureau seeks secret surveillance warrants and handles other matters after the Justice Department insp...
By Carrie Cordero
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
‘Our friends didn’t have to die’: Afghanistan Papers surface pain and familiar frustrationsLawmakers, veterans and experts have expressed shock and resignation after a Washington Post report Monday unveiled 18 years of distortion by U.S. officials over the prosecuti...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
CNAS Delivers Congressionally Mandated Study on U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific to the Department of DefenseThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today delivered an independent assessment—Rising to the China Challenge: Renewing American Competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific—to...
By Cole Stevens
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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 and Defense One Partner for Year-Long Editorial Series: "The American Readiness Project"With original reporting, research, and a body of expert commentary, the American Readiness Project will chronicle the nation’s desire, willingness, and capability for the U.S....
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Trump claim to Syrian oil raises many questionsBy claiming a right to Syria’s oil, President Donald Trump has added more complexity — as well as additional U.S. forces and time — to an American military mission he has twic...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
Can Trump’s new national security adviser keep freeing hostages? Austin Tice’s family hopes so.One day before he named Robert C. O’Brien as his new national security adviser, President Trump praised his administration’s record on securing American hostages and prisoners...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Securing U.S. Democracy Initiative
New national security adviser faces personality test with Trump’s inner circleInternal debates during President Donald Trump’s first two and a half years in office have been marked by acrimony, tension and high-stakes negotiations. So perhaps it was no ...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman