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Biden faces lasting blemish from Afghanistan exit
In The News
President Biden is facing criticism over his administration’s withdrawal from the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan that could leave a lasting blemish on his presidency. Bide...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden Holds Afghanistan Line: ‘I’m Clear On My Answer’
In The News
With the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan all but complete, US President Joe Biden took the stage and offered a full-throated defense of his decision to remove American troops ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Swift Taliban takeover leaves US image in tatters
In The News
After two decades in Afghanistan, America's longest war was ending with the image of the United States in tatters. With the swift collapse Sunday of the government in Kabul, t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden's stain: U.S. flees Kabul
In The News
Richard Fontaine, head of the Center for a New American Security and former foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain, told Axios: "It's striking that, with 20 years to think...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden’s Afghanistan Exit Raises Questions About His Foreign-Policy Record
In The News
During the 2020 political campaign, President Biden presented himself as a globe-trotting leader who had helmed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served as President Bar...
By Richard Fontaine & Lisa Curtis
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Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations
In The News
President Biden’s top advisers concede they were stunned by the rapid collapse of the Afghan army in the face of an aggressive, well-planned offensive by the Taliban that now ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden Delivers on Trump’s Afghan Exit as Taliban Nears Control
In The News
Donald Trump made the politically popular pledge to bring U.S. troops home from the nation’s longest war. Now Joe Biden is delivering on the promise -- and reaping growing cri...
By Richard Fontaine
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Taliban Advances in Afghanistan Could Bring Political Peril for Biden
In The News
When President Biden announced his plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the politics seemed relatively simple: Many polls showed that Americans supported ending the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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US, Germany stand strong in fight to defend democracy
In The News
The president of the Centre for New American Security, Richard Fontaine, said the meeting between the two leaders had not necessarily bridged differences between the US and ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden takes calculated political risk on Afghanistan withdrawal
In The News
A decade ago, Joe Biden found himself the odd man out, overruled by the generals who convinced then-President Barack Obama to increase the number of America's troops in Afghan...
By Richard Fontaine
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Boris Johnson wants to be like Churchill — this is his chance
Richard Fontaine, CEO at the Center for New American Security, in 2020 proposed a New Atlantic Charter for the post-Covid era. That could come to fruition as President Joe Bid...
By Richard Fontaine
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US National Security official says Washington taking action to maintain Taiwan Strait peace
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S. National Security Council (NSC) coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, on Tuesday (June 8) said that the last thing the world needs i...
By Kurt Campbell & Richard Fontaine
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Making America Global Again
In The News
WASHINGTON, DC – The liberal international order remains trapped in the twentieth century. As autocracies like China and Russia increasingly develop spheres of cooperation, th...
By Richard Fontaine
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Get Ready For the Mad Max New World of Hijacked Electric Cars and Downed Power Grids
In The News
If American motorists behave like typical consumers, they will notice a steep drop in the price of electric vehicles around the middle of the decade, and begin to snap them up...
By Richard Fontaine
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Marise Payne and Antony Blinken call for ‘real transparency’ from China on Covid origins
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Foreign Minister Marise Payne and US secretary of state Antony Blinken have called for greater transparency from China over the origins of SARSCov2, amid growing interest in t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Congressional efforts to repeal Iraq war authorization raise questions about Iranian proxies
In The News
A House push to repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) has picked up support across the political spectrum as President Joe Biden begins taking signifi...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden Looks to Progressive for Key Human Rights Post
In The News
U.S. President Joe Biden is close to nominating a prominent progressive foreign-policy expert to be one of the State Department’s top human rights envoys, a move that would el...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Sullivan Model
In The News
Jake Sullivan, U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, has always loved a good debate. As an undergraduate at Yale University, he placed third in the nationals; ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Congress looks to Biden as an ally as it tries to finally rewrite authority for the war on terror
In The News
There's a new movement afoot to finally curb the President's 9/11 war powers, and the Republicans and Democrats pushing it have hope in a key ally: the President himself. On t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Insiders Jockey for Whittled-Down Ambassadorship Slots
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President Biden has begun reviewing a list of finalists to serve as key ambassadors as he seeks to cut down on the number of political appointees his predecessor Donald J. Tru...
By Richard Fontaine
