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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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law Program
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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One controversial aspect of Trump's response to COVID-19 is right
President Trump's response to COVID-19 has been rambling, chaotic, and petty. Lagging rather than leading international efforts to fight the virus, the US is grappling with cr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Technology & National Security
The Newest US Sanctions on China's Huawei Could BackfireWorsening relations between Washington and Beijing could trigger punishing new US restrictions on Huawei’s supply of cutting-edge microchips. But some experts believe this wou...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law Program
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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The Problem With China’s Victory Lap
On January 24, a few days after the United States confirmed its first coronavirus case, President Donald Trump expressed his gratitude for China’s “efforts and transparency” i...
By Rush Doshi
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As U.S. struggles to stem coronavirus, China asserts itself as global leader
With Italy in dire need of medical equipment, an economic superpower stepped in to help. No, not the United States. It was China. Beijing last week promised Rome a thousand ...
By Ely Ratner
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U.S. Officials Push for Expelling Suspected Chinese Spies at Media Outlets
As China moves forward with expelling almost all American journalists from three major American newspapers, Trump administration officials have intensified discussions over wh...
By Daniel Kliman
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law Program
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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Immigrant doctors want to help the Army fight the coronavirus. The Pentagon won’t let them.Dozens of immigrant physicians who enlisted through a Pentagon program meant to harness their medical skills are stuck taking out trash and filing paperwork, an immigration at...
By Paul Scharre
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law Program
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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Indo-Pacom Presses All Domain Ops; Sends Plan To Hill SoonAt a time where the Navy has been pretty quiet about All-Domain Operations — an emerging war fighting concept being pushed by the Pentagon’s top leaders — the head of Indo-Pac...
By Eric Sayers & Daniel Kliman
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Lawmakers fret as China funnels coronavirus aid to EuropeAs the rest of the world battens down the hatches amid a rising tide of COVID-19 cases, Beijing is in the midst of a major charm offensive. In the past few days, both the Chi...
By Martijn Rasser
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / National Security Law Program
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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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
Pentagon reluctantly moves to help combat coronavirusThe US military has begun to slowly step in to aid the federal government’s coronavirus response despite reluctance among Pentagon leaders, who are concerned the domestic depl...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
China Casts Itself as Global Savior While U.S. and EU Focus on Virus at HomeSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic was emotional as he gave a press conference on the global coronavirus pandemic this week, bluntly naming which countries Serbia could count ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Its Coronavirus Cases Dwindling, China Turns Focus Outward
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, pledged to send more medical experts to Italy this week, on the same day Beijing sent 2,000 rapid diagnostic tests to the Philippines. Serbia’s pre...
By Rush Doshi
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Coronavirus: China’s mask-making juggernaut cranks into gear, sparking fears of over-reliance on world’s workshop
The Liu family factory has been making diapers and baby products in the Chinese city of Quanzhou for over 10 years, but in February, for the first time, it started making face...
By Rush Doshi
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U.S. and China Turn Coronavirus Into a Geopolitical Football
In a bid to restore its reputation globally, China claims to have fundamentally contained the spread of coronavirus in its hardest-hit areas and has pledged $20 million to hel...
By Kristine Lee