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Stephen Rodriguez in The Wall Street Journal

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Stephen Rodriguez, senior adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, said his research echoes the findings of the Cognilytica report. He said China is known for widespread adoption of consumer-facing AI, such as facial-recognition systems used in retail, but the country “does lag when it comes to commercial enterprise adoption of […]

Cameron Hudson in Foreign Policy

“By allying itself with the country’s civilian leaders, Sudan’s military leaders may well be playing the strategic long game that marginalizes the Rapid Support Forces, secures their survival under a new political dispensation, and advances the revolution’s overall goal of reforming the state and coming in from the cold.”

Diego Area on Univision

“Rosneft is among the two largest oil companies on the planet, and the consequences will not only be seen in Venezuela, but we will see how the world’s forces move around this sensitive issue.” “Rostnef está entre las dos compañías petroleras más grandes del planeta, y las consecuencias no solo se verán en Venezuela, sino […]

Jason Marczak on CNN

[On US sanctions against Rosneft related to Venezuela] “It is an important step […] I don’t expect Rosneft just to go off into the night. I think the next step is going to be how Rosneft seeks to get around those sanctions — what kind of new companies might be set up, what kind of […]

Abbas Kadhim in the Associated Press

The Iranians “don’t want another al-Sistani … They don’t want somebody who is strong, who overshadows their own supreme leader,” said Abbas Kadhim, director of the Iraq Initiative at the Atlantic Council. While none of al-Sistani’s potential successors are “in Iran’s pockets,” Tehran can benefit from a weak figure. “If this person is silent and […]

William Wechsler and Kirsten Fontenrose in the Washington Post

” The Iranian regime believes it prevented a U.S. president’s reelection in 1980 and likely assesses that it can do so again. The consequences of such an attempt in 2020 are unpredictable and dangerous, as political considerations might preclude a sober assessment of interests. “