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June 25, 2024

China
The U.S. Pivot to Asia, With Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine

Robert D. Blackwill, the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at CFR, and Richard Fontaine, the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, sit down with Ja…

Podcast U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Woodside, California, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit on November 15, 2023 Kevin Lamarque/REUTERS
Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Robert D. Blackwill, and Richard Fontaine The President’s Inbox

May 13, 2024

Defense and Security
Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadership

The U.S. military service chiefs discuss U.S. defense priorities around the world and the state of the American armed forces. The Robert B. McKeon Endowed Series on Military Strategy and Leadershi…

Play The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely, steams ahead of the Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall during a maneuvering exercise.
Virtual Event by Randy A. George, Eric M. Smith, Lisa Franchetti, David W. Allvin, B. Chance Saltzman, Linda Fagan, and Michael Froman

September 22, 2011

United States
Confirm Robert Ford

New U.S. ambassador Robert Ford (R) talks with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after presenting his credentials to Assad, in Damascus January 27, 2011 (Courtesy Reuters/SANA). The United States Se…

Confirm Robert Ford
Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

August 21, 2024

United States
Foreign Policy at the U.S. National Political Conventions

Foreign policy issues regularly come to the fore at the national political conventions, especially during periods of global instability. Sometimes the events are marked by bitter disagreements within…

Delegates cheer on the floor of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.
Backgrounder by CFR.org Editors

August 15, 2011

Syria
Should Robert Ford Be Confirmed?

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a rump confirmation for Robert Ford on August 2, attended amazingly enough by only one senator. (The rest had gone home after the debt ceiling vote.) But e…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

March 7, 2023

Technology and Innovation
Ford-CATL Partnership Illustrates the Challenge of Decoupling EV Supply Chains

Ford Motor Company's partnership with a Chinese battery manufacturer encapsulates the difficulty of the United States to balance private sector interests with the desire to reduce dependence on China…

Ford Motor Company executive chairman William Clay Ford Jr. announces the company’s intention to partner with CATL to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan.
Blog Post by Seaton Huang Net Politics