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The Biden administration wants minerals needed to build out electric vehicles and green the grid. Mineral-rich African countries could be where it finds them. White House officials hope to put down payments on projects that help shore up lagging supply chains in the United States, while at the same time showing...
During the G-20 summit in Bali last November, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of responsibly managing the competition between their countries. “I absolutely believe there need not be a new Cold War,” Biden said. For his part, Xi stressed...
Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations again condemned the violence in Myanmar, triggered by the military junta's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy opponents. At a summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought support to counter China's...
What does it mean when a state’s security sector undergoes what scholars call “elite capture”—a form of corruption in which military and defense resources are leveraged to benefit a small, powerful segment of society? What problems contribute to elite capture and is it possible to disentangle them?...
The draft NDAA asks the US defence secretary to deepen cooperation with India in areas such as AI, undersea domain awareness and air combat. As part of the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), the umbrella legislation that determines the United States (US)‘s defence budget...
Bill Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and now vice president for Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace, joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the latest from the NATO summit in Lithuania...
The G7 nations offered a new security package to Kyiv that they say should hold until Ukraine becomes a NATO member. The package includes modern military equipment, training for Ukrainian forces and intelligence sharing. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joins...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walked away from this week’s NATO summit with more pledges for military aid, but a somewhat ambiguous plan for ascension into the military alliance. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor says Zelenskyy is likely satisfied with the outcome...
The presence of four Asia-Pacific leaders at the NATO summit this week suggests that Ukraine is not the only major security issue on the agenda of the European-North American defense alliance. The war in Ukraine has brought members of the US-led alliance closer than at any time since the Cold War, and...