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24 October 2019

The Second ‘Informal Summit’ Is Done. Now for the Hard Part in India-China Ties

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By Ankit Panda Source Link The recent meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in th...

Dalai Lama is at the centre of a new great game in Himalayas between India, China & Tibet

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PHUNCHOK STOBDAN Source Link Time is running out for the Dalai Lama. The Central Tibetan Administration [CTA] too has been pleadin...

What a Withdrawal From Afghanistan Would Look Like

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By Carter Malkasian Source Link Over the past two years, a bipartisan consensus has emerged that the United States should leave Af...

Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen

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By Anthony H. Cordesman Source Link The current crisis in Iraq is partly the result of the failures by its current leadership and po...

Locking China Out of the Dollar System

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PAOLA SUBACCHI Source Link LONDON – The recently announced “phase one” agreement between the United States and China has been touted...

Is China Still the Global Leader on Climate Change?

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By Deborah Lehr Source Link China’s claim to the mantle of global leader on climate change is becoming frayed. The world’s largest c...

The Army’s not competing enough with Russia and China, but this general has a plan

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By: Todd South    Source Link WASHINGTON – Russia and China are “near peer” in name only. In some areas they already outmatch U.S....

Connecting the Dots in Xinjiang: Forced Labor, Forced Assimilation, and Western Supply Chains

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Source Link The Chinese government has detained and “reeducated” more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic and religious m...

Germany Chooses China Over the West

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BY JANKA OERTEL Source Link Over U.S. and European Union objections, the German government is poised to put in place newly drafted s...

Reviewing China’s National Day Parade

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By Rick Joe Source Link The National Day parade held on October 1, 2019 celebrated the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic o...

The U.S.-China Trade War Won't End Anytime Soon

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by Christian Whiton Source Link Last week, China agreed to make concessions to the United States on protecting intellectual proper...

Getting the nukes out of Turkey: A how-to guide

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By John Krzyzaniak Source Link Almost as soon as Turkish troops began their invasion of Syria and were even shelling US special fo...

For Israel, It's Open Skies Over Syria and Iraq

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Source Link Syria and Iraq's inability to secure their airspaces from Israeli airstrikes will lead them to try and acquire bette...

In Syria, Turkey Will Pay the Price for an Imperfect Buffer

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Source Link Turkey will expand its buffer zone along its border with Syria to buttress it from the effects of the Syrian civil war, ...

Saudi Arabia’s Oil Industry Faces Unprecedented Risk and Uncertainty

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Kristian Coates Ulrichsen   Source Link Saudi Arabia’s oil sector has probably never seen developments as jarring as the ones since ...

The Middle East’s Dangerous New Hegemonic Confrontation

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JOSCHKA FISCHER Source Link BERLIN – In the old Middle East, a single overarching conflict – between Israel and the Arab countries – ...

Taking Responsibility in a Dangerous World

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By Federica Mogherini  Source Link Federica Mogherini contends that Europe is finally taking greater responsibility for European and...

Experts React: Turkey’s Intervention, U.S. Diplomacy, and the Crisis in Syria

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Source Link When quick decisions are made in a very complex and vitally important region, it is difficult to immediately understand th...

Why Peacebuilding Is Laborious, Often Flawed, but Increasingly Necessary

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The need for peacebuilding in post-conflict societies grew out of the realization that signing agreements to bring fighting to an end is a...

The EU and the U.K. Reach a New Brexit Deal. What's Next?

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Source Link British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker meet in Brussels ahead of t...

The Condition of Europe's Curious Microstates

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Adriano Bosoni Source Link On first examination, Europe's microstates seem irrelevant, mere historical oddities that somehow m...

'Trump is thinking outside the box': Graham now 'impressed' with White House handling of Syria

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William Cummings Source Link Until recently, Sen. Lindsey Graham had been one the most outspoken critics of President Donald Trump...

Inside the Iran Hawks' Hijacking of Trump's Syria Withdrawal Plan

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by Matthew Petti  Source Link President Donald Trump says he wants to “end endless wars.” But the counter-Iran, counter-Russia h...

Climate Change Enthusiasts Will Create an Energy Crisis

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by Todd Royal Source Link Energy and poverty are intertwined. In the last ten years India, according to the United Nations 2019...

Hot Issue – The Race for Bases, Ports, and Resources in the Horn of Africa Heats Up

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By: Michael Horton Source Link Executive summary: The battle for access and influence in the Horn of Africa is intensifying as the G...

Turkey, Syria, the Kurds, and Trump’s Abandonment of Foreign Policy

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By Robin Wright Source Link Much of the world watched aghast, last week, as President Donald Trump shattered any notion of an info...

The unexpected norm-setters: Intelligence agencies in cyberspace

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Ilina Georgieva Source Link By implementing novel intelligence techniques in cyberspace, security and intelligence agencies have bec...

New air defense threats mean new equipment and new ways of defending

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By: Todd South   Source Link The Army’s formerly robust air and missile defense community has seen both its ranks and equipment d...

Emerging Technologies and Next Generation Arms Control

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Source Link This commentary is part of a series on emerging technologies. Read the previous piece on the Bureau of Cyberspace Security...

Army looks for alternatives to GPS as enemies threaten to jam signals

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by Sandra Erwin  Source Link A soldier checks part of a Mounted Assured Precision Navigation and Timing System known as MAPS. Credit:...
23 October 2019

China has quietly altered its boundary with Bhutan after Doklam stand-off with India

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COL. VINAYAK BHAT (RETD) Source Link Through last winter, Chinese activity on the Doklam Plateau has ensured that India’s boundary...

The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class

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By Pankaj Mishra Source Link Describing Britain’s calamitous exit from its Indian empire in 1947, the novelist Paul Scott wrote that...

America in Afghanistan

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By Carter Malkasian Source Link Given the length of the conflict in that country, there is no shortage of literature covering Amer...

Is Hong Kong the Battleground for a New Cyber Cold War?

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By NICK FRISCH Source Link Earlier this month, Ip Kwok-him, a top adviser to Hong Kong’s embattled Chief Executive Carrie Lam, mused ...