Diplomacy & International Relations

How Tariffs Could Derail the United States’ $3 Trillion AI Buildout (Philip Luck – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

On Wednesday, Trump proposed a 100 percent tariff on semiconductors that could raise the cost of AI servers by as much as 75 percent,...

What Trump’s Submarine Threat and Russia’s INF Exit Really Mean (Heather Williams – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

Social media is again the preferred platform for nuclear signaling. On August 1, Trump announced in a social media post that he was ordering...

Hong Kong’s Crypto Bet Is Starting To Pay Off (Matthew Fulco – The Jamestown Foundation)

Hong Kong launched a new stablecoin regime on August 1, continuing its cautious embrace of emerging financial products nearly three years after declaring its...

The Importance of Fed Independence (Roger W. Ferguson Jr. and Maximilian Hippold – Council on Foreign Relations)

President Donald Trump has long been a critic of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom he appointed in 2018. Since beginning his second term,...

Reading between the lines of the dueling US and Chinese AI action plans (Atlantic Council)

Action speaks louder than words—but words are a good place to start. On July 23, the Trump administration released ”Winning the AI Race: America’s...

Tailored psychological warfare: a deepfake video of Hong Kong activists (Sze-Fung Lee – ASPI The Strategist)

A deepfake video fabricating an online conversation between prominent Hong Kong activists has become the first known exercise in the next level of AI-enabled...

Plan to Reoccupy Gaza Further Isolates Israel (The Soufan Center)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to reoccupy all of the Gaza Strip has caused tensions with his defense establishment and with his allies...

After New Tariffs, Trust Between the United States and India Is Running Low (Richard M. Rossow – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

A U.S.-India trade agreement is about more than commerce. It is about security. In an effort to push India to cross unreasonable thresholds on...

Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program—Can It Rebuild? (Joseph Rodgers, Heather Williams, and Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 22, “Operation Midnight Hammer,” policymakers and experts launched into a...

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