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20 September 2020

Judging the Impact of U.S. Force Reductions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria

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By Anthony H. Cordesman Source Link The U.S. has said remarkably little about how conditional its future plans to withdraw all forces in Afg...

Reluctant player: China’s approach to international economic institutions

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David Dollar Source Link China has been an active participant in the international economic institutions, namely the World Trade Organizatio...

The global energy trade’s new center of gravity

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Source Link China has become the center of gravity for global energy markets. While energy demand growth has slowed or stopped in the Organi...

Network power: China’s effort to reshape Asia’s regional security architecture

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Lindsey W. Ford Source Link EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Chinese President Xi Jinping first laid out a new vision for Asian regional architecture in a ...

China’s influence on the global human rights system

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Sophie Richardson Source Link EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Is the Chinese government’s greater engagement with international institutions a gain for th...

China’s expanding influence at the United Nations — and how the United States should react

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Jeffrey Feltman Source Link EXECUTIVE SUMMARY China’s growing influence inside the United Nations is inevitable, stemming from President Xi ...

China’s pragmatic approach to UN peacekeeping

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Richard Gowan Source Link China’s involvement in United Nations peacekeeping is one of its better-known investments in the multilateral syst...

The Folly of Decoupling From China

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By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman Source Link On May 14, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to break the United States’ economic relat...

China Is Merkel’s Biggest Failure in Office

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By Andreas Fulda Source Link Angela Merkel has made it clear that she will step down after Germany’s next general election in the fall of 2...

An Answer to Aggression

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By Aaron L. Friedberg Source Link The Chinese Communist Party’s initial mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent attempts t...

The Significance of the Israel-UAE Deal

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Source Link Later today, leaders from Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will sign an agreement to pursue normalized relations. The B...

For Iran, Negotiations Aren’t Optional

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By Ariane Tabatabai , Henry Rome Source Link No matter who wins the U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden or President Donald Trump, the nex...

Mission Command of Multi-Domain Operations

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Mark Balboni, John Bonin, Robert Mundell, Doug Orsi Source Link This r esearch monograph explores the Army’s emerging concept of multi-domai...

Trump, Ike and the myth of the military-industrial complex

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Source Link It is hard to think of any U.S. president that Donald Trump resembles less than Dwight D. Eisenhower. Yet Trump managed to evoke...

Nuclear Weapons: It’s Time for Sole Purpose

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by Steven Pifer Source Link platform states that Democrats believe that the “sole purpose” of U.S. nuclear weapons should be to deter and—if...

What Will the World Look Like in 2030?

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Source Link Big demographic, economic and technological changes are coming — from an aging population in the U.S. and the rise of sub-Sahara...

It Is Time for the United States to Again Show Leadership at the WTO

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Source Link The Reset the Table essay series is published weekly, describing today’s challenges to global food security and proposing U.S. ...

The Climate Case Against Decoupling

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By Jeff D. Colgan Source Link The past few years have seen a heated debate among U.S. politicians and analysts about whether the United Stat...

America Needs to Lock Down Again

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By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker Source Link In our essay “ Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold ,” for the July/August issue of Foreig...

Debate: Should the U.S. Pursue an Offense-Oriented Cyber Warfare Strategy?

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JOSH HAMMER Source Link Is America already in the midst of a cyber war—or is that overstating the case? More generally, what should our appr...

Belarus' Next Episode

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By George Friedman Source Link Public demonstrations against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have intensified. Looked at casually,...

Cyberwarfare: the New Frontier of Wars Between Countries

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Vinugayathri Chinnasamy Source Link The entire world is warning nations about cyberwarfare. Regardless of the inexplicably overlooked warnin...

Semiconductors and Modern Defense Spending

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Source Link A New Competition The United States must again confront authoritarian powers, but the nature of conflict has changed. Now, techn...

How to Handle WeChat’s Threat Smartly

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By Jianli Yang, Times Wang, Deyu Wang Source Link The executive orders relating to WeChat and its parent company Tencent, as well as TikTok ...