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Paul Poast is the author of The Economics of War, Organizing Democracy, and Arguing About Alliances. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, and a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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China's new foreign minister, Qin Gang, warned of inevitable "confrontation and conflict" between the United States and China unless the U.S. changes course.
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U.S. Rep. Gregory Murphy (R-NC) claims China is "scared" and has been "infiltrating" the U.S. after comments by Qin Gang, China's new foreign minister.
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Christian Whiton is the author of "Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War." He is a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest, and former State Department senior advisor in the Bush and Trump administrations.
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Recent announcements of cooperation between the Republic of Korea and Japan in an effort to ease longstanding tensions between the two countries are being hailed as "groundbreaking" by President Joe Biden.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) marked International Women's Day by imposing sanctions on several Iranian regime officials and entities for various violations of human rights.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken remarked on a meeting with South Korean National Security Advisor Kim Sung-han in a tweet published March 6.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister Amery Browne met to discuss issues such as regional security, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
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The United States government is adding $69 million in aid to Rohingya refugees and other vulnerable populations impacted by the ongoing crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized the 33rd drawdown of U.S. arms and equipment for Ukraine valued at $400 million.
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Amjad Yousef, a warrant officer in the Syrian Military Intelligence Directorate, has been designated by the United States for his role in committing gross human rights violations, specifically extrajudicial killings, during the Tadamon Massacre of unarmed civilians in 2013.
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Even though the Department of Defense (DOD) rescinded the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for service members at the beginning of the year, thousands of men and women could still be discharged for not applying for a vaccine exemption.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized the prison sentence of Belarusian opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialatski.
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) set the tone for a hearing on “Advances in AI: Are We Ready For a Tech Revolution” with an opening statement that no human wrote.
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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which President Biden signed into law in Nov. 2021, introduces two new reporting requirements for individuals and businesses that conduct transactions using digital assets.
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Six entities that have supported Iran's petrochemical and petroleum industry have been sanctioned for their actions by the U.S. Department of State (DOS).
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Qin Gang, China's new foreign minister, has warned of inevitable "confrontation and conflict" between the U.S. and China unless the U.S. changes course.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken congratulated the United Kingdom and European Union for reaching the "Windsor Framework," a set of policies introduced as a "fresh approach to the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland."
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The US State Department published a three page rule on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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Rep. Bruce Westerman, (R-Ark.) chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, says China has moved ahead of the U.S. in mining natural resources, such as lithium, even as environmental agents examine possible environmental infringement by China's lithium suppliers.