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Europe was the world’s great tech enforcer. Not anymore.
In The News
When it comes to taking on Big Tech, there are new sheriffs in town: Beijing and Washington. From enacting the world’s strictest privacy law to placing guardrails against the ...
By Martijn Rasser
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China reportedly converted civilian ferries for amphibious assault operations
China has converted civilian ferries for use in military amphibious operations, potentially enabling the country to significantly surge its amphibious assault capabilities in ...
By Tom Shugart
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Bionic arms and blue-eyed bots: How Russia aims to nurture a tech hub in its Far East
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To see Russia’s ambitions for its own version of Silicon Valley, head about 5,600 miles east of Moscow, snake through Vladivostok’s hills and then cross a bridge from the main...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Heavy-lifting Russian drones could resupply soldiers on future battlefields
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Rostec, the massive Russian defense corporation, announced at the annual MAKS-2021 arms show in late July that it wants to make a better fleet of cargo drones, including one c...
By Samuel Bendett
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TikTok a Year After Trump’s Ban: No Change, but New Threats
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Saturday will mark a year since Donald Trump said he would ban the wildly popular and annoyingly addictive short-video app TikTok from millions of US smartphones, citing threa...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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Algorithmic Warfare: Russia Expanding Fleet of AI-Enabled Weapons
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Russia — which has made no secret of its artificial intelligence ambitions — is building a cadre of AI-enabled, autonomous weapon systems that could one day threaten the Unite...
By Jeffrey Edmonds & Samuel Bendett
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Russia’s Got A New Stealth Fighter—What’s It For?
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Russian plane-maker Sukhoi has developed a new single-engine stealth fighter. The jet, which Sukhoi apparently refers to as “Checkmate,” reportedly will make its debut at the ...
By Samuel Bendett
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The U.S.-China Tech Conflict Front Line Goes Through Belgium
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The historic Belgian city of Leuven is known for its centuries-old university and as the headquarters of brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev NV. Less so as the location of a se...
By Martijn Rasser
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After Decades of Catch-up Russia Just Began Building Its Own Killer Drones
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Two decades after a CIA-operated MQ-1 Predator drone performed the first modern drone strike, Russia is joining the killer drone club as it begins series production in 2021 of...
By Samuel Bendett
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The U.S. says humans will always be in control of AI weapons. But the age of autonomous war is already here.
Picture a desert battlefield, scarred by years of warfare. A retreating army scrambles to escape as its enemy advances. Dozens of small drones, indistinguishable from the quad...
By Paul Scharre
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Martijn Rasser Named Director of the Technology and National Security Program
Washington, June 28, 2021—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that Martijn Rasser has been named Director of the Technology and National Secur...
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Department of Defense AI ethics principles still lack implementation guidance
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The Department of Defense will produce guidance for its artificial intelligence ethical principles by late August, six months after an initial self-directed deadline for the c...
By Paul Scharre
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FBI China spy probe faces backlash as case against professor ends in mistrial
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An FBI agent’s admission he baselessly targeted a Chinese Canadian researcher in an economic espionage probe is driving calls for a federal investigation into the Justice Depa...
By Ainikki Riikonen
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A warning to DoD: Russia advances quicker than expected on AI, battlefield tech
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The Russian military is more technologically advanced than the U.S. realized and is quickly developing artificial intelligence capabilities to gain battlefield information adv...
By Jeffrey Edmonds & Samuel Bendett
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EU, US launch trade, technology council to outcompete China
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The European Union and United States launched a trade and technology council that seeks to “write the rules of the road” on the global economy, in the face of growing competit...
By Martijn Rasser
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CNAS Responds: Biden Meets with World Leaders on First International Trip
This week, President Biden traveled to Europe in a week long tour of high-level summit meetings with leaders from key allies. In the advisory below, CNAS experts unpack the ke...
By Richard Fontaine, Lisa Curtis, Michael Kofman, Martijn Rasser, Rachel Rizzo, Jacob Stokes, Jim Townsend & Carisa Nietsche
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Rising China hovers over G-7 summit
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All eyes will be on Britain when the leaders of the G-7 convene Friday on the shores of Carbis Bay in Cornwall. They won’t be at the table, but the specter looming over the fe...
By Martijn Rasser
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Will Europe sign up to Joe Biden’s plan to counter China?
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Ever since he entered the White House in January, Joe Biden has articulated one foreign policy goal above others — to work with allies to restrain China.After the drama and ta...
By Martijn Rasser
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Biden signs order banning investment in dozens of Chinese defence and tech firms
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US President Joe Biden on Thursday (June 3) barred Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese companies in the defence sector or whose surveillance technology aids in serio...
By Martijn Rasser
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Get Ready For the Mad Max New World of Hijacked Electric Cars and Downed Power Grids
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If American motorists behave like typical consumers, they will notice a steep drop in the price of electric vehicles around the middle of the decade, and begin to snap them up...
By Richard Fontaine
