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Donald Trump Erects a Protectionist Barrier Around America
In The News
US 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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Here’s How Trump Tariffs Were Calculated and Why Experts Are Raising Concerns with the Methodology?
In The News
As President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs against America’s trading partners, he repeatedly emphasized that each country’s rate was determined by a reciprocal formul...
By Emily Kilcrease
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No Tariff ‘Liberation’ for China
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“The only way this gets resolved is through a leader-level summit that both leaders would have to be open to, but China is backed into a corner with a tariff rate this high,” ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Weighs an Economic Assault on the ‘One Big, Juicy Target Left’ in Russia: Its Oil
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The U.S. is weighing an all-out economic assault on the lifeblood of Russia’s economy, its energy exports, in what analysts say would be a dramatic, potentially high-risk move...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Gulf Economies Avoid Harshest Trump Tariffs but Do Not Escape Unscathed
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Gulf Co-operation Council countries were largely spared from US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, but the new levies' effects will be felt across the r...
By Rachel Ziemba
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‘Ridiculous’: Lawmakers Pan Trump Plan to Tie TikTok to Tariff Relief
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President Donald Trump created a fresh round of confusion on Capitol Hill this week with his latest scheme to force China into a TikTok deal....
By Geoffrey Gertz
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How Are Trump’s Tariff Rates Calculated?
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As he unfurled his list of tariffs targeting most of America’s trading partners, President Trump repeatedly stressed that each nation’s rate was reciprocal — reflecting the ba...
By Emily Kilcrease
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CNAS Launches "A World Safe for Prosperity," an Initiative to Advance U.S. Economic Security in a Contested Global Environment
Press Release
Washington, April 1, 2025 – Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is launching A World Safe for Prosperity, a major new project designed to inform U.S. policyma...
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Want to Play a Game? Global Trade War Is the New Washington Pastime.
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The world’s biggest powers were deep in a trade war. Economic losses from the tariffs that President Trump had imposed on most of the world, along with global retaliation, wer...
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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Island Chains: Can the U.S.'s Cold War Strategy Still Contain China?
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Experts have told Newsweek that the island chain strategy, which was formulated by the United States during the Cold War, remains relevant today in containing Washington's nea...
By Tom Shugart
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Major Canada-U.S. Talks Are Coming — Here’s What’s in Play
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Canada's prime minister, whoever that is in a few weeks, is about to walk straight into a historic crossroads....
By Geoffrey Gertz & Emily Kilcrease
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South Sudan’s Vice President Arrested, Country on Brink of Civil War
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Alarm bells are ringing ever more loudly in South Sudan, as Vice President Riek Machar — chief rival to Prime Minister Salva Kiir — was arrested late Wednesday in an operation...
By Kate Johnston
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Trump Takes Credit for a Boost in Military Recruiting Started Under Biden
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Even when President Donald Trump has a good-news story to tell, he can’t resist embellishing it. It’s not enough that he can point to positive military recruiting numbers. He ...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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CNAS Launches New Initiative on the Future of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
Press Release
Washington, March 25, 2025 – As global geopolitical risks intensify and defense production continues to waver, the Center for a New American Security’s (CNAS) Defense Program ...
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‘Invasion’ Barges and Deep-Sea Cable Cutters: Why New Chinese Maritime Tech Is Spooking Defense Watchers
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From a chain of massive barges stretching from a Chinese beach into the sea, to a powerful new design for cutting undersea cables at record depths, China’s latest maritime inn...
By Tom Shugart
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South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-Soo Reinstated as Acting President After Impeachment Overturned
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South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating the nation’s No. 2 official as acting leader Monday while not yet rul...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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How DOD Could Recoup Its Investment in Ukraine’s Long-Range Drones
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For three years now, the U.S. has dug into its weapons arsenal and shared billions of dollars to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia; now, as peace talks suggest the war...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Trump, AI and the Building Blocks of the U.S. ‘Nuclear Renaissance’
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When World Bank president Ajay Banga signalled his willingness to drop the institution's ban on funding nuclear energy projects, it marked a moment when the institution aligne...
By Rachel Ziemba
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How Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Leave a Vacuum That China Can Fill
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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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CNAS Welcomes Natasha Lander Finch as an Adjunct Senior Fellow
Washington, March 21, 2025, — The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to welcome Natasha Lander Finch as an adjunct senior fellow with the Defense Program. ...
