Tag: USA

Platform Modernisation: What the US Treasury Sanctions Review Is All About (Ivan Timofeev, Valdai Discussion Club)

The US Treasury has released an overview of its sanctions policy. It outlines key principles for making the restrictive US measures more effective. The revision of the sanctions policy was announced at the...
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In the New Space Race, Will Russia and China Triumph Over America? (Natalia Azarova, Carnegie Moscow Center)

As it has intensified in recent years, great power competition has not been confined to the limits of our planet. Many matters of space...
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U.S., Russia set for Jan. 10 security talks amid Ukraine tensions (Trevor Hunnicutt, Andrew Osborn, Reuters)

U.S. and Russian officials will hold security talks on Jan. 10 to discuss concerns about their respective military activity and confront rising tensions over...
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The Pentagon’s Cloud War is (Finally) Nearing Conclusion (Frank Konkel, Nextgov)

The Defense Department began 2021 notifying Congress that it could abandon its years-long Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract should litigation continue to delay its execution. In July,...
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Biden Administration Made Major Customer Experience Moves in 2021 (Frank Konkel, Nextgov)

Federal agencies continued making progress improving customer experience in 2021, achieving record high scores in Forrester’s annual U.S. Federal Customer Experience Index. Those ratings took place...
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Biden signs $740B defense policy bill to overhaul sexual assault prosecutions, review Afghan war (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

President Joe Biden on Monday signed a $740 billion bill authorizing funding for the Defense Department in fiscal 2022. The National Defense Authorization Act includes a spending...
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With first shipboard radar now running, Raytheon looks to upgrade SPY-6 for distributed operations (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

Even as Raytheon Missiles and Defense is building and installing its first SPY-6 radars, it’s also working with the U.S. Navy to add new...
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U.S., Russia To Hold Ukraine Talks In Geneva On January 10 (RFE RL)

U.S. and Russian officials will hold security talks on January 10 amid mounting tensions over Ukraine. The bilateral talks will focus on nuclear arms control...
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To Avoid Conflagration in Europe, U.S. Must Boost Ukraine (Wes Martin, The National Interest)

The future of NATO and U.S. security policy in Eastern Europe; and the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine and of other U.S....
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How Biden Can Foster Real Peace in the South Caucasus (David L. Phillips, The National Interest)

A multilateral approach to the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict presents an opportunity for the United States and Russia to work together on a regional challenge where...
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Why Is America Pushing Russia and China Together? (Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, The National Interest)

In Ukraine, U.S. policy has pushed Russia and China together on an issue where the two countries do not see eye to eye.+ Why Is...
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Biden Should Not Embrace New Nuclear Policies (Peter Huessy, The National Interest)

Nearly 700 scientists and engineers, some of them Nobel laureates, have written a letter to President Joe Biden urging the United States to adopt four new nuclear policies. There are four serious flaws...
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Joe Biden in a Multipolar World (Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng, Project-Syndicate)

Upon taking office, US President Joe Biden had an opportunity to engineer a reset in international relations, engaging constructively with China and Russia to...
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How China and the United States might find a way to collaborate around strategic competition (East Asia Forum)

Heightened US–China tensions and strategic competition and China’s recent weaponisation of trade against countries like Canada and Australia have encouraged calls to drastically divert...
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Balancing US–China strategic competition and collaboration (Dong Wang, East Asia Forum)

The Asia Pacific has entered a period of profound change characterised by a shifting power balance and increasingly contentious great power rivalry. Key questions...
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Principal Ideas: How Can We Secure Enduring Capital for Equitable Rural Prosperity? (Aspen Institute)

This third in the Thrive Rural Field Perspectives series offers a call to action to restructure and reorient public, private and philanthropic capital in...
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