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Russian Propaganda Finds Powerful Megaphone in India

As it ramps up its media presence in India, Moscow is hardly in need of fabricating negative stories about the US. Washington is doing fine on its own to make itself inimical to New Delhi.

The Pentagon Has Given China Access to Its Systems for Over a Decade

The Defense Department (DoD) is letting Beijing into its most critical systems — not through a breach, but by design. On July 15, a ProPublica investigation revealed that the DoD has outsourced some...

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International Energy Policies Threaten U.S. National Security

Chinese-Linked Hackers Accused of Infiltrating U.S. Treasury Department

China is accelerating its efforts to compromise U.S. government systems through cyberattacks. In a letter to Congress on December 30, the Treasury Department revealed that hackers linked to Beijing had...

House Select Committee Shines Light on Hong Kong’s Role in Sanctions Evasion

U.S. legislators are increasingly concerned that Hong Kong is becoming a key hub for bypassing sanctions against Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and other authoritarian regimes. Accordingly, the House...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Additional Hamas Financiers on First Anniversary of October 7 Massacre

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ICC Prosecutor Defends Seeking Arrest Warrants for Israeli Leaders

The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan defended his decision to file a request for the court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders alongside leaders...

UN Rapporteurs Call for Arms Embargo on Israel

Several United Nations (UN)-appointed special rapporteurs issued a statement on June 20 calling on weapons manufacturers to immediately halt arms transfers to Israel. The group —...

U.S. House of Representatives Votes for Sanctions Against International Criminal Court

The U.S. House of Representatives voted by a comfortable majority on June 4 to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) following its prosecutor’s decision to...

Safeguarding U.S. Interests in the Face of China’s ‘New Productive Forces’ Strategy

Amidst China’s economic downturn, Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently announced new industrial policies aimed at cementing China’s dominance in several emerging technology sectors, such as batteries,...

Economic Security is National Security

The United States needs an Economic Security Coordination Office to compete economically with China.

From Non-Alignment to Realignment

The US and India expanded cooperation across various domains in the second reporting period of 2023. The two moved to materialize projects and initiatives that were conceived in the first quarter,...

What Washington Must Do to Check China’s Coercion

The Western offer to the Global South need not premise itself on rejecting China but instead on the rules of the liberal, open capitalist system through which China and the United States have all thrived.

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Offensive and Defensive Measures to Defeat Russia in the Economic Domain

With Eyes on Israel, Biden Ignores Judicial Crisis in Neighboring Lebanon

Washington has a vested interest in justice for the American victims of the blast and in spurring an overhaul of Lebanon’s broken political system.

Lawmakers, Former Top Officials Offer Bipartisan Rebuke of Biden’s Syria Policy

Earlier today, an open letter to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the administration’s passive response to Arab governments’ accelerating normalization...

Biden’s Opportunity to Stop Violent Extremists From Exploiting Cryptocurrency

The Biden administration intends to crack down on crypto abuse by following a roadmap for regulation it unveiled in January. Calls for reform intensified after the crypto market’s tumultuous end to 2022,...

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