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What Led to the Recent Crisis Between India and Pakistan?
On May 7, 2025, India launched missile strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir. India stated that the strikes targeted terrorist infrastructure, while Pakistan rejected India’s ...
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Moody’s Downgrade Signals Deeper Risk: Is U.S. Debt Undermining Global Leadership?
On May 16, 2025, Moody’s downgraded the United States’ credit rating, making it the last major rating agency to strip the United States of its Aaa rating. This downgrade is more than a technical ...
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Maximizing Impact Through Coordinated Security and Counterdrug Cooperation in Ecuador
In Ecuador’s April 13 run-off presidential election, Daniel Noboa—the 37-year-old candidate from the National Democratic Action Party (ADN)—was elected with 55.6 percent of the popular vote, securing ...
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Can Ukraine Fight Without U.S. Aid? Seven Questions to Ask
The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to walk away from Ukraine if there is no progress on a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. Although the administration has sent mixed signals, its ...
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USAID Cuts Weaken U.S. Influence at the United Nations
As part of its stated intention to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and circumscribe U.S. foreign assistance, the Trump administration announced recently that it had ...
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Can South Africa’s President Fix His Bilateral Relationship with Washington?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will arrive in Washington this week as part of a last-ditch effort to salvage what is left of his country’s bilateral relationship with the United States and ...
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United States and China: Who’s Zoomin’ Who?
(Apologies to the late Aretha Franklin for the title.) Two weeks ago, when I wrote about the panoply of trade deals coming our way, I omitted China, calling it a special case. I had intended to get to ...
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The Evening: Trump’s Calls, Post-Brexit Reset, The Music Never Stopped, and More
President Donald Trump spoke with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other leaders in separate calls Monday, in an attempt to stop the “bloodbath” of ...
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Understanding the Temporary De-Escalation of the U.S.-China Trade War
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Chokepoints and Economic Warfare with Edward Fishman
Center for Strategic and International Studies 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Tel: 202.887.0200 Fax: 202.775.3199 ...
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Securing the Future of U.S. Quantum Leadership with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi
Quantum technologies have the potential to drastically reshape the economic and security landscape of the United States with far-reaching global and strategic implications. The United States must ...
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PEPFAR’s Golden Era Is Over. It Urgently Needs a Five-Year Transition Plan
On January 20, President Trump announced a 90-day review of U.S. foreign assistance, which was later extended to 120 days. The review, which is set to conclude in the third week of May, was supposed ...