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Xi Tests Trump on Taiwan with Drills Firing Dozens of Rockets
China fired dozens of rockets into waters near Taiwan as part of its most expansive exercises in decades, testing Donald Trump’s support for the self-ruled island after a majo...
By Becca Wasser
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Inside the Air Force Plan to Start Its Own Experimental One-Way Attack Drone Unit
The Air Force will stand up a new unit next year to shape how the service fights with low-cost, one-way attack drones....
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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How China Built an Arms Industry to Rival the West
In 2016, Beijing launched a new aerospace conglomerate called Aero Engine Corp. of China. It had a challenging mandate: to develop top-line aircraft engines, a technology Chin...
By Tom Shugart
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Technology & National Security
Ukraine’s Campaign Against Russia’s Shadow Fleet Goes GlobalUkraine has struck a Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea, signaling a significant expansion of Kyiv’s long-range maritime campaign against Moscow’s sanc...
By Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Economy Is Struggling. But That Won’t Bring Putin to the Negotiating Table for Years
The Russian economy has been dealing with growing headwinds this year: unruly inflation, a ballooning budget deficit – due in part to massive military spending – and shrinking...
By Richard Connolly
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U.S. Submarines Are Outnumbered in the Pacific. South Korea Has a Plan to Help
South Korea wants to join the undersea naval elite – and has received the blessing of U.S. President Donald Trump to do just that....
By Tom Shugart
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Technology & National Security
CNAS Expands AI Policy Research with New AppointmentsThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce three new staff hires as it expands its multiyear Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security and Stability Init...
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Venezuela Sends Oil Tankers Under Naval Escort After Trump Declares Maritime Blockade
According to sources familiar with the matter, several commercial ships departed Venezuela’s eastern coast between the evening of December 16 and the morning of December 17 un...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Clamps Down on Investment in Chinese Tech Companies
President Trump signed into law new powers to screen and restrict U.S. investment in Chinese technology firms, marking the most significant effort yet to police how American c...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Can Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro Survive Donald Trump’s Oil Blockade?
Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro faces his biggest challenge yet after US President Donald Trump announced a blockade of the South American nation’s sanctioned oil exports, b...
By Edward Fishman, Joe Daniels & Jamie Smyth
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Venezuela’s Oil Is a Focus of Trump’s Campaign Against Maduro
The Nobel Peace Prize winner made her pitch by live video to a business conference in Miami attended by American executives and politicians, including President Trump....
By Edward Fishman
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National Security Human Capital Program
Privatizing Galleys Is an ‘Open Question,’ Says Navy’s Top Enlisted LeaderThe Navy is delving into the issue of whether to privatize some of its shore-based dining facilities while considering how such a move might disadvantage the service’s cooks, ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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Donald Trump Stiffs Farmers and China Stiffs Donald Trump
Welcome to the antepenultimate Trade Secrets newsletter of 2025. It doesn’t look like we’re going to get the US Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s tariffs before...
By Emily Kilcrease
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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?
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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Golden Dome: The Astronomical Cost of Defeating ‘Any Foreign Aerial Attack’
Just days into his second administration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to do what no other commander in chief has done: build a system for the U...
By Becca Wasser
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U.S. Strategy Shifts Focus to China, Urges South Korea to Redesign Security with Nuclear Options
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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Annual Defense Policy Bill Calls for Psychological Study on Drone Operators, Analysts
The final draft of the annual defense policy bill tasks the Pentagon with conducting a psychological study on troops and Defense Department civilians who use or support unmann...
By Molly Campbell
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Technology & National Security
How Much Could China Gain from Access to Powerful Nvidia Chips?President Trump’s announcement that the American chip maker Nvidia would be able to sell semiconductors to China appeared to roll back years of policies aimed at blocking the ...
By Tim Fist
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Japan Builds up ‘Missile Archipelago’ near Taiwan to Counter China
As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines....
By Franz-Stefan Gady