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The State Department lifted restrictions on some interactions with Taiwan. How will the Biden administration proceed?
Thomas Joscelyn
Jan 20 17
It might be time to revisit the lab-leak theory.
Thomas Joscelyn
Jan 8 64
The Department of Justice recently charged a Shabaab operative with plotting a 9/11-style hijacking.
Thomas Joscelyn
Dec 23, 2020 8
There may be a frightening number of potential CCP loyalists in Western companies and consulates around the globe.
Thomas Joscelyn
Dec 16, 2020 34
In The Atlantic, the president-elect touts his nominee's handling of the Iraq withdrawal and is notably silent on China.
Thomas Joscelyn
Dec 9, 2020 20
ISIS isn't dead, al-Qaeda is not a ‘shadow of its former self,’ and the Taliban is not our counterterrorism partner.
Thomas Joscelyn
Dec 3, 2020 78
The CCP has increased its rhetorical attacks on Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government in recent weeks.
Thomas Joscelyn
Nov 25, 2020 25
The Islamic Republic and al-Qaeda have a long history of cooperation.
Thomas Joscelyn
Nov 19, 2020 15
China and Russia are waiting and seeing, but the Taliban has acknowledged the president-elect.
Thomas Joscelyn
Nov 12, 2020 5
How the 'great powers' are reconfiguring their partnerships for a new era. Plus, why it matters that al-Qaeda’s media chief was killed in Taliban count…
Thomas Joscelyn
Oct 28, 2020 9
A new book from H.R. McMaster offers a look back at Trump's attempted containment and wooing of Kim Jong-un.
Thomas Joscelyn
Oct 22, 2020 24
It obscures that Iran and al-Qaeda sometimes do work together.
Thomas Joscelyn
Oct 15, 2020 68
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