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North Korea blows up liaison office in escalation of hostilities with Seoul
In The News
North Korea has blown up the inter-Korean liaison office near the country’s border with South Korea, marking a sharp escalation in hostilities by Kim Jong Un towards Seoul. So...
By Van Jackson
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Special Report: How China got shipments of Venezuelan oil despite U.S. sanctions
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The United States had imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company as part of a bid to topple that country’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro. U.S. refineries s...
By Peter Harrell
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North Korea Promises to Advance Nuclear Weapons as It Turns Back to Foreign Affairs
In The News
North Korea, on the second anniversary of the historic Singapore summit between Kim Jong Un and President Trump, said relations with the U.S. had “shifted into despair” and pr...
By Kristine Lee
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CNAS and Axios Partner to Present the CNAS 2020 National Security Conference
Press Release
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce its partnership with Axios for the CNAS 2020 National Security Conference, the America Competes Summer Ser...
By Cole Stevens
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U.S. seeks to house missiles in the Pacific. Some allies don’t want them
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The governor of a Japanese territory where the Pentagon is thinking about basing missiles capable of threatening China has a message for the United States: Not on my island. ...
By Eric Sayers
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Lawmakers propose billions to boost U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and research
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Concerned that too much semiconductor manufacturing and know-how has shifted overseas, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is proposing allocating tens of billions of dollars to b...
By Eric Sayers
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Behind China’s Twitter Campaign, a Murky Supporting Chorus
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As the Trump administration lashes out at China over a range of grievances, Beijing’s top diplomats and representatives are using the president’s favorite online megaphone &md...
By Kristine Lee
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Kim Jong Un cuts communication lines with South Korea
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North Korea will cut all communications with South Korea in what experts say is the latest gamble by Kim Jong Un to pressure Washington over economic sanctions. According to K...
By Van Jackson
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China eases foreign travel limit after US threat
China has said it will loosen restrictions on international air travel that were put in place to control coronavirus. The move came hours after the US pushed Beijing to allow ...
By Daniel Kliman
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Breaking China: A rupture looms between Israel and the United States
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Israel’s announcement last week that an Israeli consortium would build Sorek 2, the world’s largest desalination plant, surprised many who had been watching the deal: The cont...
By Vance Serchuk
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U.S.-China Disputes Growing Harder to Solve
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President Donald Trump’s decision to downgrade relations with Hong Kong shows how his clashes with China increasingly feature ideological differences that are harder to resolv...
By Peter Harrell
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As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic values
The setting was the Rose Garden. The topic was China. And for President Trump, the goal of the White House event Friday was to condemn the communist nation as a threat to demo...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump announces unprecedented action against China
President Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Beijing Friday, naming misdeeds that range from espionage to the violation of Hong Kong's freedoms, and announced a slew...
By Richard Fontaine
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Inhofe, Reed back new military fund to confront China
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As the U.S. Congress hardens against Beijing, two key lawmakers publicly added their support for a new military fund to boost deterrence against China in the Pacific, virtuall...
By Eric Sayers
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Beijing Escalates Crackdown on Hong Kong
Press Note
China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, is poised to consider a new national security law to tighten Beijing's vise on Hong Kong. By circumventing th...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, Kristine Lee, Ashley Feng & Joshua Fitt
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China in the global spotlight as its annual political congress gets underway
In The News
The huge and highly choreographed set piece of the Chinese political calendar got underway Friday with around 3,000 Communist Party officials and military delegates descending...
By Kristine Lee
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Cold War 2.0: How Trump's Attacks on China Could Backfire
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In September of 1946, Nikolai Novikov, the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., penned what would become known as the Novikov Telegram, which assessed the foreign policy of Presiden...
By Kristine Lee
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Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen riding high into second term as Trump fights China
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen urged China’s Xi Jinping to “find a way to coexist” with the island’s democratic government, as she started her second term riding high with a...
By Ashley Feng
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For most of Afghanistan war, U.S. ‘never really fought to win,’ Trump declares
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President Trump on Monday declared that the United States had “never really fought to win” in Afghanistan, except early in the nearly two-decade-long war, making a sweeping st...
By Richard Fontaine
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How a Chinese AI Giant Made Chatting—and Surveillance—Easy
In 1937, the year that George Orwell was shot in the neck while fighting fascists in Spain, Julian Chen was born in Shanghai. His parents, a music teacher and a chemist, enrol...
By Elsa B. Kania
