The US State Department has launched a new batch of accusations against China, blaming it for undermining world stability and many other sins. The charges themselves, judging by the number of points, are more like a sentence.
… Since the start of the new year, Pompeo’s Twitter account has been on a rampage, touting the accomplishments, such that they are, of his tenure at the State Department. The account has been posting between 20 and 30 tweets a day, each defending the administration’s record and invoking all the hoary hashtags of “Make America Great Again” social media: #LeadingFromTheFront, #SoMuchWinning, #StillWinning, #MaximumPressure, #AmericansFirst, #PeaceThruStrength, and, of course, #swagger. At the time I filed this column, there were about 200 such tweets…
The tweets are short on diplomatic accomplishments measured in the traditional fashion there are few mentions of any agreements reached, no statistical measures of progress, nothing. To the extent that concrete actions are mentioned at all, they are largely negative actions, such as withdrawing from international agreements like the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Paris agreement on climate change, and Iran nuclear
preventing large-scale or sustained terrorist attacks on the American homeland; and (5)
assuring the stability of the international economy, which is addressed below.
Executive Summary
In 2011, a task force on U.S.-Russian relations, led by Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill, identified the preservation of international economic stability as one of five vital U.S. national interests. In recent years, the United States has certainly faced major challenges that threatened the stable functioning of the global economic system, such as the 2008 Great Recession or the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of this primer is to assess how Russia and the various threats Washington sees emanating from Moscow impact this vital U.S. interest.
President-elect Biden’s pick for CIA director has Carlisle roots
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
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When William J. Burns is sworn in as the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, it will put a seasoned, career diplomat in charge of the nation’s largest agency devoted to understanding the nature and urgency of all present and emerging threats to America’s interests.
It will also, in a much more parochial sense, mark the next link in a chain of high-level service to country that’s become, over the decades, something of a vocation for the Burns family, which has called the Carlisle area home off and mostly-on since the early 1970s.
An exceedingly challenging agenda of urgent, important, and diverse arms control issues awaits the incoming Biden administration. To address it, the administration should consider the creation of a new agency to focus on cooperative threat reduction.