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Italy joins China’s BRI
Italy’s Di Maio tries to reassure Washington after becoming first G-7 country to join China’s massive Belt and Road initiative KEY POINTS Italy on Saturday became the first Group of 7 countr...
Another Step for the Space Force
By Alan W. Dowd, ASCF Senior Fellow JUNE 2019—The Senate Armed Services Committee has voted in favor of standing up a new military branch focused on defending U.S. interests and assets in space. ...
U.S.-China trade talks end for the day with no announcement of a deal
Photo: Damir Sagolj | Reuters President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping meet business leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017....
UPDATE 2-Pentagon to transfer $1.5 bln to border wall from Afghan forces, other areas
Photo: © Max Herman/NurPhoto/Getty Images U.S. Military troops add concertina wire to the border wall in Nogales, Arizona on February 6, 2019. Troops began adding additional rows of wire to...
South Korea says North Korea’s latest launches were missiles
Photo: © The Associated Press This Thursday, May 9, 2019, photo provided Friday, May 10, 2019, by the North Korean government shows a test of military weapon systems in North Korea. North Korea f...
U.S. Threatens Sanctions After Maduro Arrests Guaido Allies
Photo: Bloomberg Juan Guaido...
To Defend Freedom Abroad, We Need Freedom at Home
By Alan W. Dowd, ASCF Senior Fellow MAY 2019—Not long ago, there was a stigma in America attached to the word “socialism.” It was viewed as alien and indeed hostile to the American way of lif...
Venezuela: Russia urges US to abandon ‘irresponsible’ plan to topple Maduro
Photo: AFP/Getty Images Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Venezuela’s foreign minister Jorge Arreaza give a press conference in Moscow on Sunday....
In message to Iran, White House announces new military assets in Middle East
Photo: © Cati Cladera/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is pictured off the Balearic Islands of Spain on April 16....
In Venezuela, US-Guaido strategy flops again: Is this working?
Photo: © Good/TNS/TNS Poll on Venezuelans dissatisfaction with healthcare....
Still ‘opportunity’ to negotiate full denuclearization: Mike Pompeo on North Korea
Photo: Sait Serkan Gurbuz/AP Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference, April 22, 2019, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C....
China, climate, Russia to dominate Pompeo Europe tour
Photo: The Associated Press Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, waves as he stands alongside Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, Monday, April 29, 2019, at the U.S. State Department in...