Tag: USA

Biden Administration Aligns With Kremlin Push for Minsk ‘Agreements’ on Ukraine (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Joseph Biden administration has recently learned the Russian MinskSpeak, chapter and verse. Following direct discussions with Moscow (see EDM, October 20, December 8, 9, 14), the White...
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US and Allies Fail to Pull Moscow Away From Beijing (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

During a video-conference on December 15, Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China hailed close political, military and economic ties, as...
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Broadband privacy belongs with the FTC, not the FCC (Cameron F. Kerry, Brookings)

When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a staff report in late October on the privacy and data collection practices of six large internet service providers...
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What might we expect from Native American voters in the upcoming 2022 election? (Gabriel R. Sanchez, Brookings)

The past two election cycles have demonstrated the power of the Native American vote in federal elections. Native American voters were recognized as a...
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Housing growth in the Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. metro areas shows why the U.S. is failing at climate resilience (Rushaine Goulbourne, Jenny Schuetz,...

Climate resilience has emerged as a key priority for the Biden administration. President Joe Biden has announced an ambitious goal to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas...
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A new climate finance framework for investing in urban resilience (Joseph W. Kane, Adie Tomer, Brookings)

As climate change continues to intensify—raising the urgency to address mounting risks and escalating costs—the public and private response remains slow and uneven. Steps...
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China’s AI giant SenseTime blacklisted: Is China-US financial decoupling taking place? (Yang Danxu, ThinkChina)

The US government has seemingly pulled the rug from under the feet of SenseTime by putting it on a blacklist just a week before...
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How Biden’s Plan to Limit the Role of Nuclear Weapons Challenges NATO (Sophia Becker, Elisabeth Suh, DGAP)

The Biden administration is considering an important change in US security policy: declaring the sole purpose of nuclear weapons to be the deterrence of...
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Joint Statement by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, on the November...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America and the United Kingdom are encouraged by the political agreement in...
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US Congress Misses Key Opportunity to Promote Rights (Leah Hebron, Kate Weine, HRW)

Today, the US Congress passed the annual defense spending bill. The legislation leaves out several significant human rights priorities, despite efforts from some lawmakers. Each...
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Envoy To Belarus Says Release Of All Political Prisoners Remains Goal Of U.S. Sanctions Policy (RFE RL)

The unconditional release of all political prisoners in Belarus remains the top goal of the United States, the U.S. special envoy to Belarus, Julie...
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How the U.S. can quickly build greater resiliency in space (Sarah Miniero, SpaceNews)

Vice President Harris’s chairmanship of the first National Space Council under the Biden administration earlier this month is a welcome step toward a whole-of-government approach for...
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U.S. military looking to build lasting relationships with commercial space industry (Sandra Erwin, SpaceNews)

The U.S. military wants to buy more products and services from commercial space companies. This is easier said than done, however, as the Pentagon...
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Raytheon wins $67 million U.S. Space Force contract to build weather satellite prototype (Sandra Erwin, SpaceNews)

Raytheon Technologies received a $67 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to build a weather satellite to provide imagery of cloud cover and...
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The missing element of the first National Space Council meeting of the Biden administration (Jeff Foust, SpaceNews)

If the Biden administration’s space policy has a theme after nearly one year, it’s one of continuity. The White House has avoided major changes in...
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Chinese Firms Targeted by New Biden Orders Meant to Curb Fentanyl, Synthetic Drugs (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

Four Chinese companies and one Chinese citizen have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department, under just-announced Biden administration executive orders intended to help...
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