Day: December 2, 2020
Stevenson’s army, December 2, late edition
Couldn’t wait til morning for these:
The House Calendar for 2021 is out. Here’s a story about it. And here’s the document.
FP reports on the fight to be HFAC chairman.
The administration is slashing the size of its embassy in Iraq.
A former official says CIA is losing people because of poor personnel management.
Dan Drezner sees Trump-Biden tug of war over foreign policy.
WSJ says China’s only US friend is Wall Street
CSIS has a list of popular but bad ideas.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).
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Stevenson’s army, December 2
Tom Friedman reports on long interview with Biden, who talks about McConnell, China, Iran, and more.
Politico says transition team looks to quickly assign people to non-Senate-confirmed slots in case top nominees are delayed. Good plan, like what I suggested last month.
NDAA confusion. The defense lawmakers have agreed, but the leadership faces White House demands. Trump threatens veto unless repeal of communications act sect. 230 is included. I’ve never known a veto to be successful over what’s NOT in a bill, and this is nongermane, passed by neither house. But who knows?
The US commission on China set up by Congress in 1998 to provide regular reports skeptical of engagement with PRC has issued its latest annual report.
A WaPo article notes some highlights.
NYT says Sudan is demanding action by Congress blocking sanctions as price for deal with Israel.
Duke’s Peter Feaver has new poll questioning US war weariness.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).
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