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Intelligence community sounds alarm on threat posed by Chinese Communist Party

Print this article The U.S. intelligence community is sounding the alarm about the national security threat posed by China, with two major recent intelligence assessments warning about aggressive actions the Communist Party takes to maintain and grow its power in the world. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an annual threat assessment on Tuesday ahead of a Worldwide Threats hearing scheduled for Wednesday, with the report leading off with a lengthy description of China’s military, economic, technological, diplomatic, cybertheft, and malign influence efforts to grow its power. This follows the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2040 report released last week, which laid out the long-term challenges posed by a rising China.

Monday Briefing: Afghan peace talks in a state of confusion

Marvin G. Weinbaum Director, Afghanistan and Pakistan Studies As prescribed by the Biden administration in early March, the major stakeholders in the Afghan conflict have been beckoned to an April meeting in Turkey. The planned U.N.-headed conference is intended to give a strong kickoff to a new round of talks between the Taliban and a broadly representative Afghan delegation, leading directly to negotiating an interim government for the country. But almost everything about the conference seems up in the air. To begin with, even after six weeks of discussion, no firm date for the meeting has been agreed upon. A tentative April 16 starting date for the conference now seems unrealistic, if not impossible, and the agenda is still being debated. Nor have all those invited confirmed their intention to attend. The Taliban seem particularly hesitant to commit. Attempts in Afghanistan to present a unified front for the talks have been frustrated by competing peace programs from various po

Monday Briefing: Afghan peace talks in a state of confusion

Monday Briefing: Afghan peace talks in a state of confusion
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Biden military budget: Defense spending to rise 1 7 percent if he gets his way

In a move that will upset some on the left wing of his party, President Joe Biden is requesting $753 billion for national defense, a 1.7 percent increase over President Donald Trump’s military budget last year. However, as Biden’s Republican critics are bound to complain, he is requesting a 15.9 percent increase in non-defense spending. In fact, while Trump’s last budget cut everything but defense, Biden’s first budget gives the Defense Department in percentage terms the smallest increase of any federal agency except for the Department of Homeland Security, whose budget remains about the same as last year. Advertisement

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