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Iran’s cyberwar reaches the families of American troops

The reported Handala leak should not be dismissed as another routine cyber incident. It is a sign that hostile actors now see personal information as a weapon of intimidation. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Iran-linked Handala Hack Team claimed it published the names

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China's Xi lauds 'new positioning' in ties with US

BEIJING, May 14 - China's President Xi Jinping hailed on Thursday a \"new positioning\" of ties with the United States that envisages cooperation with measured competition, following his summit with President Donald Trump.

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Asking the wrong question about Qatar

The recurring Washington argument over Qatar — is it friend or foe, ally or adversary, partner or problem? — tells us less about Doha than it does about ourselves. Specifically, it tells us that a generation after the end of the Cold War and a quarter-century into the war on

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Iran war overshadows Trump's China visit as peace talks stall

BEIJING/WASHINGTON, May 14 - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to ask China to help end the costly and unpopular Iran war in discussions with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, with peace talks stalled and the global economic cost of the conflict increasing.

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Trump-Xi summit: a new arms control era can begin in Beijing

US President Donald Trump is meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, with the arms control architecture, global and bilateral alike, in collapse. The Eleventh Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, now underway in New York, is sliding toward a third

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Trump-Xi summit: no grand bargain, only managed instability

When Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping in Beijing, neither side is likely to get what it wants. Trump wants Chinese help in ending the war with Iran. Xi wants the United States to ease pressure on China’s core interests, above all Taiwan. Neither outcome is likely. But that does

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