Daily Memo: South China Sea Drills, Compromising on the S-400 Dispute

Turkey is signaling that it's willing to negotiate on the S-400s if Washington changes its stance on the YPG.

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South China Sea still heating up. A week after conducting its first freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea during Joe Biden’s presidency, the U.S. Navy on Tuesday conducted exercises in the disputed waters featuring not one but two aircraft carrier groups – only the third time that’s happened since 2012. A French nuclear […]

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