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U.S.-China Disputes Growing Harder to Solve
In The News
President Donald Trump’s decision to downgrade relations with Hong Kong shows how his clashes with China increasingly feature ideological differences that are harder to resolv...
By Peter Harrell
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Australian government asks China for same reduction in trade barriers as US
In The News
The Morrison government has asked China to grant Australia the same reduction in bureaucratic trade barriers that Beijing has promised the United States. The requ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Beijing Escalates Crackdown on Hong Kong
Press Note
China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, is poised to consider a new national security law to tighten Beijing's vise on Hong Kong. By circumventing th...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Daniel Kliman, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, Kristine Lee, Ashley Feng & Joshua Fitt
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The Great Decoupling
In The News
The U.S. ambassador on the spot in an Asian economic powerhouse put it bluntly in a cable to the secretary of state in Washington: Don’t cut them off. Give them some “economic...
By Ashley Feng
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FBI probes Mexican, European firms over Venezuela oil trading-sources
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The FBI is probing several Mexican and European companies allegedly involved in trading Venezuelan oil as it gathers information for a U.S. Treasury Department inquiry into po...
By Peter Harrell
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Jack Ma: The billionaire trying to stop coronavirus (and fix China's reputation)
The richest man in China opened his own Twitter account last month, in the middle of the Covid-19 outbreak. So far, every one of his posts has been devoted to his unrivalled c...
By Ashley Feng
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Trudeau announces $2.45B in aid for oil and gas sector, $1.7B to clean up wells
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced new aid for Canada’s battered oil and gas sector, responding to pleas for help as commodity prices fell to record lows and demand d...
By Rachel Ziemba
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CNAS Launches New Initiative: America and the Post-Pandemic World
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a major initiative on America and the Post-Pandemic World. Leveraging CNAS’ unique multidisciplinar...
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Canada in talks with OPEC, as oil rout continues
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday that Canada has been in communication with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) about cooperation to addre...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Russian Fund Behind Coronavirus Aid Shipment Is on U.S. Lending Blacklist
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A Russian state-owned fund that says it footed half the bill of a coronavirus aid shipment delivered to the U.S. on Wednesday has been on a U.S. Treasury restricted lending li...
By Peter Harrell
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Iran, Venezuela and other U.S. foes fight coronavirus amid American sanctions
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Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Islamic faction in Lebanon deemed a terrorist group by the U.S., has decades of experience fighting wars. But not the kind it launched this week. Ar...
By Peter Harrell
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U.S. ignores calls to suspend Venezuela and Iran sanctions amid coronavirus pandemic
At a time when all of humanity is facing a common, invisible, enemy, world leaders have called for a suspension of economic sanctions that have increasingly become the pursuit...
By Peter Harrell
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Gulf Sovereign Funds Seen Shedding $300 Billion in Market Mayhem
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The Gulf region’s rainy day funds are bracing for the deluge. On top of the collapse of oil prices and meltdown in global markets, Gulf sovereign wealth funds are channeling s...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Oil price crash prompts tougher US sanctions push on Iran, Venezuela flows: analysts
Rather than compelling the Trump administration to relax its oil sanctions regime, the global coronavirus pandemic and oil price crash may be motivating an even more aggressiv...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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CNAS Responds: Coronavirus Outbreak Tests Every Aspect of U.S. and International Security
As regions across the U.S. announce states of emergency and a growing list of countries restrict travel, close schools, and quarantine citizens, the economic costs of the coro...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg, Paul Scharre, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, COL Sarah Albrycht, Kristine Lee, Peter Harrell, John Hughes, Rachel Ziemba, Michael Horowitz, Elsa B. Kania, Will Mackenzie, Ashley Feng, Kaleigh Thomas, Carisa Nietsche, Emma Moore, Joshua Fitt, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth & Ainikki Riikonen
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U.S. to Iran: Coronavirus won't save you from sanctions
In The News
The United States sent Iran a blunt message this week: the spread of the coronavirus will not save it from U.S. sanctions that are choking off its oil revenues and isolating i...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Would Lifting Sanctions Really Help With Iran’s Coronavirus Crisis?
In a world facing a pandemic, Iran’s struggles with the coronavirus stand out. The country currently has more than 17,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19—growing at about 1,000 pe...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Coronavirus: The Deadly New U.S.-Iran Standoff
The official COVlD-19 death toll in Iran has risen to 237 people today as the U.S.-Iranian diplomatic standoff continues to slow down international cooperation to fight the ne...
By Peter Harrell
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Iran Sanctions Aggravate Coronavirus Crisis
In The News
Have years of U.S. sanctions and efforts to isolate Iran affected the ability to get information about –- or aid to help control –- the coronavirus, as it continues to spread?...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Huawei or the Highway
In The News
“Huawei” — The name at the center of the trade war between the United States and China, and the foremost player in the battle over 5G. Recently becoming the second-largest sel...
By Peter Harrell
