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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
As U.S. Adversaries Bond in Beijing, Trump Grows Frustrated With PutinAs the leaders of China, Russia and North Korea gathered for a grand military parade in Beijing, President Trump on Wednesday took pains to brush off the striking show of soli...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
The Anti-U.S. Axis Isn’t Dead, Just RestingJune was a bad month for the theocrats in Tehran, what with all those Israeli and American bombs falling on them. It also seemed — at least superficially — to be a setback for...
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Nicholas Lokker
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
JUST IN: Growing Alignment Among Potential Foes Creating Challenges for U.S., Experts SayThe alignment between Russia, China, North Korea and Iran carries implications across the United States’s diplomatic and economic foreign policy, but the military threat is of...
By Richard Fontaine & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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The Pentagon’s Policy Guy Is All In on China
In The News
Elbridge Colby believes that China is the only country on the planet that has the ambition, resources, and military might to knock the United States off its pedestal as the wo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Rubio Heads to Asia on Trip Overshadowed by Tariffs, Middle East
In The News
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for a Southeast Asian summit this week, his first to the region as America’s top diplomat, should be a chance...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
The Alluring Fantasy of a Quick Win in IranAfter the elation, the doubt. President Donald Trump said that “Operation Midnight Hammer”, had “totally obliterated” Iran’s uranium-enrichment facilities. But now an early in...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
China Not Likely to Use Navy to Secure Hormuz Strait, Analyst SaysChina is highly unlikely to use its navy to secure the vital Strait of Hormuz if Iran threatens to close it as Middle East tensions rise, a top US analyst told reporters Monda...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Iran Conflict Could Tilt Global Balance of PowerHow will the Iran conflict affect the global balance of power? Answering this question may seem a fool’s errand given how fast events are moving now that U.S. President Donald...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump, a Self-Styled Peacemaker, Gets Drawn Into Foreign Entanglements
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On the first day of his second term, President Trump predicted he would be remembered as a peacemaker and a unifier....
By Richard Fontaine
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The Trump Administration’s AUKUS Review Set Off a Political Storm, but It Doesn’t Mean the Deal Is Dead
In The News
News that the Trump administration is reviewing AUKUS broke like a wave over Australia this morning....
By Richard Fontaine
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It’s a Really Bad Time to Be an Expert in Washington
In The News
The most dangerous occupation in Washington these days is being an expert....
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Deal Maker or Duped? Trump’s Embrace of Putin Shows Few Results.President Trump has described President Vladimir V. Putin as “savvy” and “genius” for invading Ukraine, while bragging about his “very, very good relationship” with the autocr...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Donald Trump Erects a Protectionist Barrier Around AmericaUS presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton and George W Bush have used the White House Rose Garden to celebrate significant moments in America’s drive to liberalise the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
In The News
When President Trump announced on Friday that the United States would move ahead with a long-debated project to build a stealthy next-generation fighter jet, the message to Ch...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Europe’s New Reality: Trump May Not Quit NATO, but He’s Already Undercutting ItIn his first term, President Trump episodically threatened to pull out of NATO, removing the United States as the linchpin of the most successful military alliance in modern t...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Trump Writes a New Playbook for Quagmires in Gaza and UkrainePresident Trump is rewriting the accepted playbook for solving the world’s intractable conflicts—offering talks to settle the Ukraine war with concessions to Russia and crushi...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
In Trump’s Pentagon, a Growing Skepticism About U.S. Military PowerTo understand how the second Trump administration may use the U.S. military, the best clues aren’t written in the pages of Foreign Affairs or sussed out during panel discussio...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Endgame
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By Richard Fontaine
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Rubio’s Authority as Secretary of State Threatened Even Before Trump Term Begins
In The News
Senator Marco Rubio is Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of state, but in the weeks running up to Inauguration Day, the president-elect’s special envoys have been getting...
By Richard Fontaine & Eric Martin
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
U.S. Urged to Bolster Global South Ties to Counter China-Russia PartnershipThe US must strengthen relations with the Global South and increase its military presence in the Indo-Pacific to counter the growing China-Russia partnership, two authors said...
By Richard Fontaine
