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cna talks: Chinese Arctic Investment, Part I

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The first of a two-part episode on the podcast CNA Talks discusses China’s Arctic investment and laws in Arctic nations to regulate foreign direct investment.

and regulation of the global commons, international law and treaties, the law of armed conflict and homeland security. Rosen is a retired Navy captain who served with the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps as an international law attorney and military planner. Cara Thuringer is a research specialist at CNA with expertise in environmental analysis, water resource management, climate change studies, and communications. She supports CNA’s   Military Advisory Board (MAB) , an elite group of retired military flag officers, as they investigate the national security implications of: global

How China Remembers WWII Could Color Summit

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China's interpretations of World War II are central to its positions on Japan and Taiwan, two issues likely to come up in Xi Jinping's summit with President Trump.

assertions when discussions turn to Taiwan, Japan, and other key issues in international security affairs. Japan, Taiwan, and Second World War History The 80th anniversary commemorations ... . Finkelstein is CNA’s Distinguished Research Fellow for National Security Affairs and founder of the China Studies Program at CNA. This article is based on a more detailed paper, Prepare ... and civilians, so the commemorations are not solely cynical politics. China suffered greatly during the war. In dealing with some current international issues, today’s PRC government is taking

After APEC: Newly Elected Leaders Seek Engagement Amid Tensions

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The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit saw intense bilateral negotiations involving South Korea, China, Japan, Russia, and the United States.

Elizabeth Wishnick and Carita Reid Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick is a senior research scientist in CNA's China Studies Program and Carita Reid is an associate research analyst with CNA’s Indo-Pacific Security ... divided international community and highlighting the challenge of barriers to trade. The two leaders reached a temporary truce on tariffs and rare earths, and their meeting paved the way for a resumption ... condemning Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine. Urging APEC to aim for consensus, South Korea followed APEC protocol by inviting President Vladimir Putin to the APEC meeting despite the International

Russia and China Have Drawn Closer: Three Ways to Wedge Them Apart

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US policymakers should pursue a policy that imposes economic pain on China as long as its Russian connections continue to deepen.

. Setting a ‘Wedgable’ Playing Field Current conditions in the international states system remain conducive to continued Russia-PRC alignment. Russia and the PRC simply have no obvious reason to break ... leadership’s persistent and longstanding concerns about international status and prestige. Moscow has taken a terrible reputational hit in Europe and North America by prosecuting the war in Ukraine ... sanctions on Russian military exports to India or simply signaling that the US trusts India to make its own decisions on international partnerships. Closer Russia-India ties mean at least a good chance

Samoa Disputed Election Amid Great Power Rivalry

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A disputed election has recently plunged Samoa into a state of constitutional crisis. The outcome of this dispute may reshape the small Pacific island country’s relations with China, the United States and U.S. allies in the region.

Brian Waidelich is a Research Scientist in CNA’s Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Program . His research focuses on issues related to great power competition and Indo-Pacific maritime security. Benjamin DeThomas is a Research Scientist in CNA's Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Program , where he works on issues related to China’s overseas influence and economic statecraft. A disputed election has ... and to build capacity and resilience in the field of maritime security. Recent strategic guidance from the Biden Administration also reiterates the U.S. intention to “reinforce our partnership with Pacific

Why Pandemics Are National Security Threats

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COVID-19 is a nontraditional threat that has affected U.S. national security in both direct and indirect ways.

Why Pandemics Are National Security Threats COVID-19 is a nontraditional threat that has affected U.S. national security in both direct and indirect ways. /images/InDepth/Post85.png Why Pandemics Are National Security Threats 85 Pamela Faber Pamela Faber is a senior research scientist in Countering Threats and Challenges at CNA. She is an expert in security and development in conflict ... be scientifically understood and countered, its evolution is well outside the values, norms and behaviors we ascribe to traditional adversaries. This nontraditional threat has affected U.S. national security

ai with ai: A Mind Forever Voyaging Part 2

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OpenAI has trained an unsupervised language model that can perform basic reading comprehension, summarize text, answer questions, and generate coherent paragraphs; as Andy and Dave discuss, the bigger news came from OpenAI's decision to release a less-capable version of the GPT-2 model, "for the good of humanity," as one news site claimed. IBM's Project Debater lost a debate with champion debater Harish Natarajan, but more of the audience said Project Debater better enriched their knowledge on the topic. Princeton and Microsoft announce NAIL, an agent for playing general interactive fiction (such as the Zork series), and consisting of multiple Decision Modules for performing various tasks. Columbia University takes a step toward reconstructing speech directly from the brain's auditory cortex, by temporarily placing electrodes in patients and having them listen to spoken numbers. DARPA announces SAIL-ON, the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty, in an attempt to help AI adapt to constantly changing conditions. DARPA's Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) promises $7.6M to the Center for Open Science, for leading the charge on reproducibility. The Animal-AI Olympics hopes to create a survival-of-the-fittest for AI approach to the animal kingdom. Facebook releases ELF OpenGo, an open-source implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero. Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve discover an entirely new form of neural communication that works through electrical fields and can function over gaps in severed tissues. The Nufffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence released a report on the Ethical and Societal Implications of Algorithms, Data, and AI. Technology for Global Security and Center for Global Security and Research join forces to understand and manage risks to international security and warfare, as posed by AI-related tech. A short review in Science looks at brain circuitry and learning, and Andy pulls DeepMind's look at Neuroscience-inspired AI paper from 2017. Research examines engineering-based design methodology for embedding ethics in autonomous robots, while another paper assesses the local interpretability of machine learning methods. Jeff Erickson releases a textbook on Algorithms; Daniel Shiffman publishes The Nature of Code; and Jason Brownlee offers up Clever Algorithms – Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes. A video from This Week in Machine Learning and AI dissects the controversy surrounding OpenAI's GPT-2 model. And finally, two websites offer up faces of fictional people.

. The Nufffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence released a report on the Ethical and Societal Implications of Algorithms, Data, and AI. Technology for Global Security and Center for Global Security and Research join forces to understand and manage risks to international security and warfare, as posed by AI-related tech. A short review in Science looks at brain

ai with ai: A Mind Forever Voyaging Part 1

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OpenAI has trained an unsupervised language model that can perform basic reading comprehension, summarize text, answer questions, and generate coherent paragraphs; as Andy and Dave discuss, the bigger news came from OpenAI's decision to release a less-capable version of the GPT-2 model, "for the good of humanity," as one news site claimed. IBM's Project Debater lost a debate with champion debater Harish Natarajan, but more of the audience said Project Debater better enriched their knowledge on the topic. Princeton and Microsoft announce NAIL, an agent for playing general interactive fiction (such as the Zork series), and consisting of multiple Decision Modules for performing various tasks. Columbia University takes a step toward reconstructing speech directly from the brain's auditory cortex, by temporarily placing electrodes in patients and having them listen to spoken numbers. DARPA announces SAIL-ON, the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty, in an attempt to help AI adapt to constantly changing conditions. DARPA's Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) promises $7.6M to the Center for Open Science, for leading the charge on reproducibility. The Animal-AI Olympics hopes to create a survival-of-the-fittest for AI approach to the animal kingdom. Facebook releases ELF OpenGo, an open-source implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero. Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve discover an entirely new form of neural communication that works through electrical fields and can function over gaps in severed tissues. The Nufffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence released a report on the Ethical and Societal Implications of Algorithms, Data, and AI. Technology for Global Security and the Center for Global Security and Research join forces to understand and manage risks to international security and warfare, as posed by AI-related tech. A short review in Science looks at brain circuitry and learning, and Andy pulls DeepMind's look at Neuroscience-inspired AI paper from 2017. Research examines engineering-based design methodology for embedding ethics in autonomous robots, while another paper assesses the local interpretability of machine learning methods. Jeff Erickson releases a textbook on Algorithms; Daniel Shiffman publishes The Nature of Code; and Jason Brownlee offers up Clever Algorithms – Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes. A video from This Week in Machine Learning and AI dissects the controversy surrounding OpenAI's GPT-2 model. And finally, two websites offer up faces of fictional people.

. The Nufffield Foundation and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence released a report on the Ethical and Societal Implications of Algorithms, Data, and AI. Technology for Global Security and the Center for Global Security and Research join forces to understand and manage risks to international security and warfare, as posed by AI-related tech. A short review in Science looks at brain

The Wrong President Attended China’s Military Parade

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The US did far more than the USSR to free China from Japan’s occupation in World War II—history forgotten as Xi stands with Putin at China’s anniversary parade.

Dr. David M. Finkelstein is vice president and director of CNA's China and Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Division . He is a retired US Army officer. Today, the People’s Republic of China (PRC ... Communist International (Comintern) pressured the Chinese communists to cease hostilities with the Nationalists and enter into the Second United Front. And the Soviets did not declare war on Japan ... military as “the strong enemy.” The Japan of 2025 is not the Japan of 1945; Tokyo is counted among Washington’s closest security partners in Asia. For its part, Russia continues its brutal war against

Golden Dome, Nuclear Modernization, and Arms Control: Can the Administration Have It All?

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President Trump is simultaneously pursuing the Golden Dome missile defense shield, nuclear modernization, and arms control—a challenging combination.

strategy priorities at a moment when the shifting international security environment is more complicated than the Cold War Reagan inherited. Golden Dome will be competing with critical needs ... negotiations. The administration’s transactional approach to international relations and the President’s prior personal relationships with his foreign counterparts may produce interesting agreements