Tag: USA

Top official says cyber operations are ‘not just about the systems’ (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

The Department of Defense is at an “inflection point” when it comes to cyberspace and cyber operations and must consider the role of the...

Chinese hypersonic missile test unlikely to trigger arms race, experts say (Jen Judson, Defense News)

The August test of a Chinese space-based hypersonic missile is unlikely to trigger an arms race, but could influence the White House and Defense Department’s effort...

Facebook’s First Amendment rights complicate Section 230 debate (Daniel Lyons, American Enterprise Institute)

Last week, House Democrats introduced another bill designed to alter social media companies’ business practices — this time by punishing “personalized algorithms.” This is the latest...

Biden aide, Saudi crown prince discussed Israel normalization: report (Al Monitor)

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan raised the possibility of Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with Israel during his meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed...

Members of Congress criticize normalization with Syria’s Assad (Adam Lucente, Al Monitor)

Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas said Tuesday that establishing ties with President Bashar al-Assad would “legitimize cruelty” in Syria, joining other lawmakers, both...

Ex-US President Donald Trump announces social media site (Al Jazeera)

Former United States President Donald Trump has announced the launch of his own social media platform, nine months after being expelled from all major sites for...

China tested hypersonic weapons twice, ‘stunned’ US: Report (Al Jazeera)

China conducted not one, but two tests of new hypersonic weapons in July and August, the Financial Times (FT) newspaper has reported, raising more...

US, Europe condemn N Korea ballistic missile launch at UN (Al Jazeera)

The United States, Britain and France have told the United Nations that North Korea, which tested what it said was a “new type” submarine-launched...

Semiconduttori, Usa e Ue a confronto: scenari e frizioni di un Risiko sempre più complesso (Stefano Sartorio, Agenda Digitale)

Il mercato dei semiconduttori è molto interconnesso e trasversale e tocca gli interessi di decine di Paesi: per questo è al centro delle strategie...

The Impact of Sino-American Rivalry on Russia’s Relations With China (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The world’s three foremost geopolitical players and leading military powers of the day—the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China, and the...

Endless Competition, but not the Endless War (Zhou Bo, Valdai Discussion Club)

If the 20-year war in Afghanistan was a “forever war” for the United States, then its competition with China must be “forever competition”, because...

The Kremlin Is Pleased After Kozak-Nuland Talks on Ukraine (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

According to Kremlin-connected analyst Fedor Lukyanov, the Joseph Biden administration had to work hard with Moscow to make Under Secretary Victoria Nuland’s visit possible....

The Kremlin Is Pleased After Kozak-Nuland Talks on Ukraine (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Joseph Biden administration has apparently decided to work with Russia toward a political solution to the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas. On October 13,...

Policymakers must enable consumer data rights and protections in financial services (Dan Murphy and Jennifer Tescher, Brookings)

After years of inactivity, momentum is gathering for policy action on issues related to consumer financial data in the United States. In July, the...

Survey shows most Japanese don’t want Tokyo to take sides in China-US rivalry (Xu Keyue, Xing Xiaojing and Zhang Changyue, Global Times)

A poll on China-Japan relations showed that a majority of the respondents in both countries cited US pressure as an obstacle for China-Japan ties...

China’s Hypersonic Test Raises Questions About US Missile Defense, Deterrence (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

The “deeply concerning” test of a Chinese hypersonic missile shows that the United States has “a lot of work to do” on technology and...