Richard Fontaine

Richard Fontaine is the president of the Center for a New American Security. He worked on the National Security Council staff and at the State Department during the Bush administration.
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Security guards walk past a billboard for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on May 13, 2017. (Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)

On China’s New Silk Road, Democracy Pays A Toll
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U.S. Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo arrives to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on April 12. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

Mike Pompeo Needs to Clean Up After Rex Tillerson
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, on March 22, 2013. (Sergei Ilnitsky/AFP/Getty Images)

Defending America Means Defending Democracy
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2 Percent Is No Magic Number
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 25: (AFP OUT) (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, U.S National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. President Barack Obama sit before Obama gives remarks at a special high-level meeting regarding the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa during the 69th United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2014 in New York City. The UN General Assembly brings together political leaders from around the world to report on issues and discuss solutions. (Photo by Anthony Behar-Pool/Getty Images)

Don’t Expect Too Much From Obama’s National Security Strategy
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