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Sharper: Nuclear Deterrence
The United States faces two determined near-peer competitors with robust conventional military forces and increasingly advanced nuclear arsenals. In the Indo-Pacific, the Peop...
By Philip Sheers, Anna Pederson & Alexa Whaley
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America’s China Strategy Has a Credibility Problem
An effective U.S. sanctions strategy should play to U.S. strengths in the financial sector while reserving the most severe measures for acute crises or conflicts....
By Emily Kilcrease
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Why the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has been getting busier
It’s been a couple weeks since President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that will require ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the social media app TikTok, to sell it of...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. and Europe chafe over “overcapacity” — but is it real?
Overcapacity is kind of a fuzzy word, and that’s saying a lot for an economic term. “At a basic level, overcapacity is too much production and too little demand,” said Geoffr...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Taking the Temperature of China’s Relationship with the United States and Europe
On Sunday, May 5th, Chinese President Xi Jinping will begin his first trip to Europe in five years. On this trip, Xi will make a high-profile two-day visit to France, where he...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Bonnie Glaser & Noah Barkin
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Countering China’s Red Dragon over the South China Sea
There is little doubt that China’s maritime power has grown over the last several decades, with its fleet expected to reach 400 surface combatants by 2025. As they have develo...
By LCDR Thelmar A. Rosarda & Nathaniel Schochet
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The Real Cost of Reimposing Sanctions on Venezuela
Last month, the Biden administration announced that sanctions relief on Venezuela would not be renewed. Reinstating the sanctions that were temporarily lifted in October was a...
By Rowan Scarpino
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Uncrewed but Confident: Forging New Rules of the Road to Avoid Accidental Escalation
Air and maritime uncrewed platforms in the Indo-Pacific may be a promising area for developing new confidence-building measures....
By Tom Shugart
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Around the Table with Abi Olvera
Around the Table is a three-question interview series from the Make Room email newsletter. Each edition features a conversation with a peer in the national security community ...
By Abi Olvera
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Turkey’s Democracy Is Down but Not Out
Turkey has a long way to go before it can be considered a liberal democratic country, but this election signals that there are pockets of resilience....
By Kate Johnston & Gibbs McKinley
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Stacie Pettyjohn on drones in Ukraine
The Merge podcast hosts Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn to discuss her new report: Evolution Not Revolution, Drone Warfare in Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine Stacie is a Senior Fel...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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A Blueprint for a Functional China-US Working Group on AI
Late last year U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping met in San Francisco in an attempt to restabilize the relationship after a troubled year. The meeting end...
By Michael Depp
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The Axis of Upheaval
The West has been too quick to dismiss the coordination among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Richard Fontaine
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Trump allows US-Ukraine aid bill to pass
“He did not jump in there to support that minority, and they went down”. Donald Trump made “positive” statements about Ukraine on social media posts and did not support the R...
By Jim Townsend
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The Section 702 economic risks that few are talking about
702 is vital to protecting the U.S. homeland and our allies from foreign threats....
By Daniel Silverberg & Elena McGovern
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The State of the War in Ukraine with Michael Kofman
As the war in Ukraine continues into its third year, the mood has become increasingly dark. While territorial changes continue to be minor, Russia’s slow but steady advances a...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Michael Kofman
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Iran ‘minimizing impact’ of Israeli strike: analyst
Iranian media reported explosions, but an Iranian official told Reuters those were caused by air defense systems. State media said three drones over the central city of Isfaha...
By Jonathan Lord
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Sharper: NATO 75
From July 9–11, NATO leaders from across the Atlantic will gather in Washington, DC for the 2024 NATO Summit, which marks the 75th anniversary of the alliance. This meeting wi...
By Anna Pederson, Anna Avanesyan & Charles Horn
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How China’s $100B+ Shipbuilding Empire Dominates the U.S.’s
China has transformed into a shipbuilding powerhouse over the past two decades, cementing its status as a major maritime power. In 2023, more than half of the world’s commerci...
By Tom Shugart
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Proxy battles: Iraq, Iran, and the turmoil in the Middle East
Since Hamas’s attacks sparked the war in Gaza on 7 October 2023, a dangerous cycle of escalation has played out across the Middle East. Iran and its proxies – such as the Hout...
By Hamzeh Hadad