Andrea Kendall-Taylor quoted in The Washington Post article, “Biden Administration Imposes Significant Economic Sanctions on Russia Over Cyberspying, Efforts to Influence Presidential Election”
“‘It’s good to clearly message our priorities to Russia,’ said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. ‘By packaging a response to several things at once, the administration can get off the back foot and move on its agenda. What we don’t want is
Read MoreJoe Gagnon quoted in Voice of America article, “Does US Economic Stimulus Boost the Global Economy?”
“‘The government is sending out checks to everybody,’ said Joseph Gagnon, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. ‘Households and state and local governments are buying all kinds of supplies for education and health care — we haven’t had a government budget deficit this big since World
Read MoreAndrea Kendall-Taylor quoted in Voice of America article, “US Further Punishes Russia for Cyberattacks, Election Meddling”
“According to Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, this package of sanctions does not really relate to what is going on with Ukraine. She terms it the Biden administration’s way of wrapping up unfinished business with other
Read MoreJoe Maguire quoted in The New York Times article, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan”
“‘As good as our intelligence and over-the-horizon capabilities are, there is no substitute for being there,’ Joseph Maguire, a former top Navy SEAL commander who served as acting director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, said in an interview. ‘Our effectiveness in protecting our homeland will be significantly diminished…’”
Read MoreDennis Ross quoted in The Jerusalem Post article, “How Will the Natanz Incident Affect Iran’s Vienna Negotiations?”
“Ambassador Dennis Ross, a distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told the Post that the incident in Natanz won’t change the Iranian desire to get sanctions lifted. ‘It may reduce the sense of urgency on the part of the Biden administration to restore the JCPOA (Joint
Read MoreJim Jeffrey writes in The Washington Post: “The Biden Administration’s Wrong Move on Iran”
“The Biden administration has suddenly abandoned its tough position on a return to the nuclear deal with Iran (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA), for a breathtakingly broad interpretation of which post-2016 U.S. sanctions Iran can insist be lifted to include not just, reasonably, sanctions inconsistent with the
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The New York Times article, “Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology”
“China is freeing up tens of billions of dollars for its tech industry to borrow. It is cataloging the sectors where the United States or others could cut off access to crucial technologies. And when its leaders released their most important economic plans last week, they laid out their ambitions
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “China’s Message to America: We’re an Equal Now”
“China retaliated against the EU sanctions by blacklisting European lawmakers and think tanks, although that might make the EU parliament’s ratification of a pending investment treaty with China more difficult. “‘It’s a high-stakes gamble for the Chinese,’ says Daniel Russel, a former Obama China official, now a vice president at
Read MoreCharlie Bolden quoted in Space article, “60 Years of Human Spaceflight Brings In Tech Changes and Emphasis on Diversity”
“In an exclusive interview with Space.com in 2020, Charles ‘Charlie’ Bolden — a former astronaut who served as NASA administrator from 2009 to 2017 — reflected on his experiences as a Black man and leader of space exploration, along with his feelings about racism and violence against people of color
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Washington Post article, “Kerry Expected to Travel to China in First Visit by Top Biden Official”
“Following the contentious meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials in Anchorage in March, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported that the two sides had decided to set up a working group on climate change among other modest but specific joint initiatives. But U.S. officials told The Washington Post that no
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