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Tech entanglement—China, the United States, and artificial intelligence
Commentary
In Washington and Beijing’s complex bilateral relationship, artificial intelligence has emerged as a new domain of both cooperation and competition. Even as China and the Unit...
By Elsa B. Kania
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“Unmanned, Intangible, Silent Warfare” – New Threats and Options for Taiwan
As the character of conflict is transformed by the advent of robotics and artificial intelligence on the battlefield, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recognizes and...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Succeed or Fail, the Falcon Heavy Launch is Good for America
Commentary
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is set to launch today for the first time. According to SpaceX, the heavy lift vehicle “will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a fa...
By Jerry Hendrix & Adam Routh
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How the United States Can Get More Strategic Bang For Its Force Structure Buck
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis released an unclassified summary of the new National Defense Strategy two weeks ago. The big news in the strategy is a front-and-center focus o...
By Susanna V. Blume
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Debating Slaughterbots and the Future of Autonomous Weapons
Commentary
Stuart Russell, Anthony Aguirre, Ariel Conn, and Max Tegmark recently wrotea response to my critique of their “Slaughterbots” video on autonomous weapons. I am grateful for th...
By Paul Scharre
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CNAS Responds: State of the Union 2018
Commentary
On January 30, 2018, President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. The speech covered a wide array of accomplishments and challenges that the United States e...
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CNAS Commentary: Maximum Pressure AND Engagement after the SOTU
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President Donald Trump’s State of the Union pledge of "total American resolve" to denuclearize North Korea signals that we are now in a period of heightened danger in Northeas...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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CNAS Commentary: Trump Administration Implementation of U.S. Sanctions on Russia and Next Steps in Russia Policy
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On January 29, the Trump administration published a list of Russian oligarchs and senior Russian government officials and issued a public statement describing diplomatic effor...
By Peter Harrell & Elizabeth Rosenberg
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The Cataclysm That Would Follow a 'Bloody Nose' Strike in North Korea
Since last summer, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster has been building a case for the use of preventive force against North Korea. In interviews and public statements, h...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper
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Europe's Migration Crisis is Anything but over
Since the European migration crisis captured the world’s attention in 2015, headlines on the subject have significantly decreased. Many assume Europe is receiving far fewer re...
By Rachel Rizzo
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How to Successfully Sanction North Korea
The North Korean nuclear crisis has placed a premium on the ability of sanctions to avert war, and the past two years have seen an important increase in U.S. and international...
By Peter Harrell & Juan Zarate
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Obama’s ISIS policy is working for Trump
Last week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivered a speech that after a year in office finally laid out a new strategy for Syria. The part that’s getting the most attentio...
By Nicholas Heras & Ilan Goldenberg
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The Missing Piece in the World’s North Korea Strategy
Last Wednesday, the United States Treasury added to its economic pressure campaign against North Korea, sanctioning a variety of entities the Kim regime uses to evade internat...
By Neil Bhatiya
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There Is No NATO without the North Atlantic
Commentary
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has a problem in the North Atlantic. It is not prepared for Russian aggression, at either the strategic or the tactical level. Th...
By Jerry Hendrix
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PacNet #10 - Olympic Pause: Testing, Not Trusting North Korea
South Korean President Moon Jae-in faces mounting domestic criticism for inviting North Korea to participate in the Winter Olympics. Although Kim Jong Un is reaping favorable...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Donald Trump's Davos journey from statesman to salesman
The notion of Donald Trump descending on the global economic elite at Davos stirred tremendous interest, not least across the Indo-Pacific. The WTO-sceptical, TPP-withdrawing,...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump's disastrous foreign policy in Asia is the worst since Vietnam
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The withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may have been the greatest self-inflicted American foreign policy blunder in Asia since the Vietnam War. Asia is all ab...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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The US Navy’s New Frigate Should Jumpstart a Revitalization of the Defense Industrial Base
The United States Navy requires a frigate. Building this warship will strengthen our depleted naval fleet and reenergize a vital sector of the nation’s defense industrial base...
By Jerry Hendrix
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Congress Just Made Bipartisan Progress Against Terrorism
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Last year brought news both good and bad in the fight against terrorism. On the positive side, the Islamic State’s brutal “caliphate” has virtually collapsed under a U.S.-led ...
By Richard Fontaine
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U.S. Sanctions Abet Iranian Internet Censorship
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President Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement if Tehran does not agree to renegotiate its terms this spring. But rather than tear up the nucl...
By Peter Harrell
