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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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Europe’s New Reality: Trump May Not Quit NATO, but He’s Already Undercutting It
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In his first term, President Trump episodically threatened to pull out of NATO, removing the United States as the linchpin of the most successful military alliance in modern t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Writes a New Playbook for Quagmires in Gaza and Ukraine
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President Trump is rewriting the accepted playbook for solving the world’s intractable conflicts—offering talks to settle the Ukraine war with concessions to Russia and crushi...
By Richard Fontaine
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In Trump’s Pentagon, a Growing Skepticism About U.S. Military Power
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To understand how the second Trump administration may use the U.S. military, the best clues aren’t written in the pages of Foreign Affairs or sussed out during panel discussio...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Endgame
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By Richard Fontaine
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Rubio’s Authority as Secretary of State Threatened Even Before Trump Term Begins
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Senator Marco Rubio is Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of state, but in the weeks running up to Inauguration Day, the president-elect’s special envoys have been getting...
By Richard Fontaine & Eric Martin
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U.S. Urged to Bolster Global South Ties to Counter China-Russia Partnership
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The US must strengthen relations with the Global South and increase its military presence in the Indo-Pacific to counter the growing China-Russia partnership, two authors said...
By Richard Fontaine
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What Comes Next for Syria
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Titled “Syria: What Happened and What Comes Next,” the virtual event featured Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security and a Perry World House visiting ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Patricia Murphy: Trump’s Most Important Pick in Georgia
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Former Sen. David Perdue could soon be packing his jean jacket for China, since Donald Trump nominated the former senator and CEO to be his ambassador in Beijing late last wee...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump May Find Things to Like About Biden’s ‘Horrible’ Foreign Policy
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President-elect Donald J. Trump comes to office with a view of America’s place in the world that is dramatically different from his predecessor’s. ... But amid the many areas ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Appointees Signal a New Hawkish China Policy
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In a sweeping shift toward a hard-line approach, the new Trump administration is tipped to put some of Washington’s most ardent China critics in key foreign policy positions —...
By Richard Fontaine
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Loyalty Is Common Thread as Trump Fills Foreign Policy, Immigration Jobs
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President-elect Donald Trump is stocking his cabinet and White House staff with loyalists with deep congressional experience who back his agenda on immigration and foreign pol...
By Richard Fontaine
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With Only Two Months Left, What Are Biden’s Options for Ukraine?
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With little more than two months left in the White House, Joe Biden is running out of time to expedite the delivery of funds and weaponry needed to ensure Ukraine can stay in ...
By Richard Fontaine
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U.S. Diplomats Brace as Trump Plans Foreign Policy Shake-Up in Wider Purge of Government
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The US foreign policy establishment is set for one of the biggest shake-ups in years as Donald Trump has vowed to both revamp US policy abroad and to root out the so-called “d...
By Richard Fontaine
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Ukraine Allies Face Limited Options Over North Korea Troops
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Russia’s decision to bring North Korean troops to shore up its war-weary forces has Ukraine’s allies realizing they have few options to respond without escalating the conflict...
By Richard Fontaine
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BRICS Membership Becomes a Way to Signal Non-Commitment
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If the purpose of the BRICS group — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — is to amplify its members' global influence, it may be having some effect. Loom...
By Richard Fontaine
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North Korean Arms More Significant than Troops in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got to the point in his presidential address last night: “Another state,” he said, was “joining the war against Ukraine”. He was refe...
By Richard Fontaine
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In a Change, the Biden Administration Is Now Signaling That It Backs an Israeli Strike Against Iran
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The attack in April was a mix of low- and high-impact airborne devices, with drones leaving Iranian airspace hours before they would arrive — giving Israel, the United States ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden Administration Proposes Ban on Chinese Software in Vehicles
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Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security who is an author of the recently published book “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Ri...
By Richard Fontaine
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U.S. Parties Find Unity in Quad’s Potential to Counter China in the Indo-Pacific
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Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), a non-partisan think tank in Washington, said “squaring off” between Chinese and Philippine vessels as ...
By Richard Fontaine
