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China's Cyber-Commitments and Congressional Oversight: A Suggestion
Last week's meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Obama produced a significant bilateral statement on cybersecurity spying: "The United States and China agree that neither country’s gov... -
Xi On the Global Stage: The Costs of Leadership
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Correction/Update: China Did Accept the American Formulation in the Cyber Deal
On Friday I read the transcript of the translation of President’s Xi’s remarks with President Obama to leave a possible gap in what China and the United States agreed to in the announced cyber deal on Fr... -
Is Civil War Coming to Turkey?
Editor's Note: This article originally appears on Order from Chaos. Turkish politics are slipping deeper into a state of chaos, with important implications for U.S. policy in the Middle East—and especi... -
Is the U.S. drone program in Yemen working?
Editor’s Note: The U.S. drone program – as Lawfare readers well know – raises contentious policy issues as well as criticisms of its legality and morality. Many of these policy issues come to the fore in... -
The Unending Saga of Ukrainian Reforms
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The Lawfare Podcast: Gregory Johnsen Answers "What is a Houthi?"
On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Gregory Johnsen outlines the current state-of-play in Yemen. Johnsen, who is a writer-at-large for Buzzfeed News, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, and an all-... -
What President Xi Actually Said About Online Theft of Intellectual Property
In my earlier post on the cybersecurity portions of the summit, I noted the importance of an authoritative public Chinese statement on the substance of the agreement between China and the United States. ... -
What Explains the U.S.-China Cyber “Agreement”?
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Water Wars: Update on Joint Press Conference
Presidents Xi Jinping and Barak Obama hold joint press conference in the Rose Garden (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) -
Resettling Syrian Refugees: Lessons from the (Forgotten) Iraqi Refugee Crisis
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A Quick Reaction to the Cybersecurity Portion of the Xi-Obama Summit
This note is based on the White House Fact Sheet. Cybersecurity-