National security and intelligence reporter for NBC News; formerly Foreign Policy magazine, Agence France-Presse, The Guardian, Reuters
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Dan De Luce retweeted
I’m one of the Americans who spent years living and studying in China. I majored in Chinese literature in college. Sadly, I cannot recommend young Americans do the same thing today. Why?
—First, the obvious. China has grown more repressive and less welcoming to foreigners in the two decades since I was a student there. There is much less space for dissent, and for freedom of speech.
—Somewhat surprisingly, this is worse for American students who are gay, or who are non-white. Chinese Americans often get expected to “know better,” while Black Americans are sometimes treated as second class citizens.
—American universities pretend that the programs they have in China ensure the same standards and the same academic freedom they have in the U.S. They don’t, and they can’t. I’d feel better about Americans studying there if universities were more honest and transparent about the sacrifices they make to stay in China, and the benefits of those sacrifices.
—if tensions worsen between the United States and China, those students could effectively function as hostages.
🚨Just in: Chinese President Xi Jinping made a big announcement at the White House
“I am glad to announce an invitation for 100,000 young Americans to visit China for exchanges in study in the coming five years.”
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U.S. intelligence inspector general investigating how a CIA officer deceived the top spy agency nbcnews.com/politics/nationa… via @nbcnews
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Dan De Luce retweeted
Significant crowd outside of the Kennedy Center for a “Hands off the Arts” protest, as the nation’s memorial to former President John F. Kennedy remains closed.
Just today, a dozen more employees of the Center were laid off, a source familiar with the layoffs tells @nbcnews
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🔴 Live Now: Cooperation between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea is making each adversary more formidable and increasing the odds the U.S. will confront simultaneous major wars.
@SenToddYoung, @Brad_L_Bowman, @ElaineDezenski, @MarkCMontgomery, @dandeluce, and @RyanBrobst_ take the FDD stage to discuss: bit.ly/45Fvoev
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Trump administration weighs drastic cut to U.S. forces in Europe of 25,000 or more nbcnews.com/politics/nationa… via @nbcnews @glubold @dandeluce
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Dan De Luce retweeted
Breaking: Michigan State University helped China conduct “psychological warfare.”
We are releasing a series of reports on American state universities and their ties to China’s defense establishment. It’s rarely as simple as direct ties with the People’s Liberation Army.
MSU partners with the Communication University of China (CUC) through a dual-degree master’s program in International Digital Advertising. CUC describes itself as an important “base” for Party propaganda and ideological work and has links to laboratories focused on public-opinion analysis and cognitive-domain research. MSU faculty and programs have also engaged with Chinese domestic and external propaganda officials and universities working in areas such as digital media, artificial intelligence, and information warfare.
The report finds that these relationships create research-security and dual-use risks because communications, audience-analysis, data, and AI expertise developed for civilian or academic purposes can also support censorship, propaganda, influence operations, and military applications.
strategyrisks.com/press/repo…
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Dan De Luce retweeted
Former British Prime Minister @BorisJohnson, after Ukraine says Russia targeted his train as it traveled into Poland:
I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning. What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring every day - even on civilian railways. So far Putin has been responsible for the deaths of 1700 staff of Ukrzaliznytsia - Ukrainian Railways. They and their daily passengers are absolutely heroic.
When are we going to give them the air defences they need? Why won’t we unfreeze Putin’s cash and give it to Ukraine? There is more than €140 billion in a Belgian bank account - and about £10 billion in London. Britain could show a lead.
The Ukrainians are going to win - that much was clear from the last three days in their wonderful country. But we will get this dreadful war over much faster if we all get serious and give them what they need and deserve.
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Dan De Luce retweeted
New: Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show. propub.li/4xTBcxt
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Dan De Luce retweeted
Diplomacy begins with understanding the person across the table.
In negotiating with Vladimir Putin, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff see a businessman. Putin’s record suggests that he is something very different.
My take:
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Lithuania closes Vilnius airport, NATO summons jets in response to possible drone reut.rs/46U5Fzr reut.rs/46U5Fzr
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Der Spiegel says Russia’s drone strike near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing hit close to a special train from Kyiv carrying Boris Johnson plus advisers to Merz and other European leaders. The train also had security advisers from other governments, Bundestag members, diplomats and researchers.
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Two of the world’s top AI chief executives publicly agree on slowing AI development nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ant…
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This wasn’t our train, but the one just minutes after us by the 🇵🇱 border crossing. It was evacuated as the 🇷🇺 drone approached and no one was hurt. Very good safety system. Our train just had an evacuation warning but could proceed to Dorohusk. The 🇷🇺 attacks against 🇺🇦 are intensifying.
The Kyiv Independent
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Dan De Luce retweeted
If you read one thing on this somber 9/11 anniversary, read this piece by my friend @Ali_H_Soufan in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Dan De Luce retweeted
🇫🇷 Investigators suspect that a train derailment in northwest France which injured 44, one gravely, was the result of sabotage, a police source told AFP on Saturday.
➡️ u.afp.com/SjAy
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On 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks, doubts about the intelligence office that was supposed to harmonize the work of the country's spy agencies nbcnews.com/politics/nationa… via @nbcnews
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Former intelligence officials and Democratic lawmakers say ODNI has been diminished not just by workforce reductions but by Trump’s efforts to inject partisan politics into its work.
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