EXPLAINER: Our navy expects to join a British-led flotilla which will pass through the contested South China Sea in a few months. Why does this bit of ocean matter, and why are we sending our navy there?
March 17, 2021
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The Biden administration appears to have adopted a two-pronged strategy to reduce the corrosive impact of hot-button social, cultural and racial issues: first by inundating the electorate with a flood of cash via the $1.9 trillion Covid relief act and second by refusing to engage fractious issues in public, calculating that deprived of oxygen, their strength will fade.
The sheer magnitude of the funds released by the American Rescue Plan, the White House is gambling, will shift voters’ attention away from controversies over Dr. Seuss, who can use which bathroom and critical race theory. So far, the strategy is working.
Gregory Falco
Dr. Gregory Falco is a security researcher at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute, an incoming Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Civil & Systems Engineering and the Institute for Assured Autonomy and an NSF-Fulbright Scholar in Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity in Iceland. His research is on space system and critical infrastructure cybersecurity and resilience.
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