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Countering Coercion

Lisa Curtis, Nilanthi Samaranayake | March 29, 2024

Forging a New Era of U.S.-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation

Lisa Curtis, Evan Wright, Hannah Kelley | March 21, 2024

Future-Proofing Frontier AI Regulation

Paul Scharre | March 13, 2024

Evolution Not Revolution

Stacie Pettyjohn | February 08, 2024

Indo-Pacific Security

Countering Coercion

The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC or China) has been engaging in gray zone activity—coercive behavior that is aimed at changing the status quo but that is below a threshol...

Indo-Pacific Security

Forging a New Era of U.S.-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Cooperation

Executive Summary In August 2023, the leaders of Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and the United States met for an unprecedented in-person summit at Camp David to expand an...

Technology & National Security

Future-Proofing Frontier AI Regulation

Executive Summary Policymakers should prepare for a world of significantly more powerful AI systems over the next decade. These developments could occur without fundamental b...

Defense

Evolution Not Revolution

This report concludes that drones have transformed the battlefield in the war in Ukraine, but in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary fashion. While tactical innovation a...

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    • The New York Times
    • April 25, 2024
    Losing a Foot Never Held Her Back, Until She Tried to Join the Military

    The military personnel bureaucracy is risk-averse, and no one wants to be the first to let an amputee in, said Katherine Kuzminski, who studies the military and society at the...

    By Katherine L. Kuzminski

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    • POLITICO
    • April 25, 2024
    Blinken in Beijing

    “Some had said China was uncomfortable with North Korea’s military support of Russia. This shows that’s not the case,” JACOB STOKES, senior fellow at the Center for a New Amer...

    By Jacob Stokes

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    • Foreign Policy
    • April 25, 2024
    Congress Helps Steer Taiwan Toward the ‘Porcupine Strategy’

    U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week touched down in China for high-stakes diplomatic meetings with top Chinese officials as part of the Biden administration’s ong...

    By Jacob Stokes

  • Press Note
    • April 24, 2024
    CNAS Responds: $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package

    Last night, in a remarkable show of bipartisanship, the U.S. Senate passed the $95 billion foreign-aid package. What all was included in the package, and what is its significa...

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    • The Hill
    • April 24, 2024
    Ukraine looks to stop the bleeding as US readies more aid

    Becca Wasser, a senior fellow for the defense program at the Center for a New American Security, said the incoming aid package is significant but will not “magically solve all...

    By Becca Wasser

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