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China says it will hit back against new U.S. sanctions over Uighur rights
In The News
China said on Friday it would take “reciprocal measures” against the United States after Washington imposed sanctions on senior Chinese officials over alleged human rights abu...
By Peter Harrell
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Bill targeting banks over China's Hong Kong law passes U.S. Senate
In The News
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation on Thursday to penalize banks doing business with Chinese officials who implement Beijing’s draconian new national security la...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Market analysts react to China's new Hong Kong law
In The News
Beijing unveiled national security legislation tailor-made for Hong Kong on Tuesday, setting the stage for the most radical changes to the former British colony’s way of life ...
By Peter Harrell
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Deep in the Heart of Texas, a Chinese Wind Farm Raises Eyebrows
In The News
The Trump administration will not block a Chinese-owned company from building a wind farm in Texas near the Air Force’s largest pilot training base, a person familiar with the...
By Ashley Feng
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Special Report: How China got shipments of Venezuelan oil despite U.S. sanctions
In The News
The United States had imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company as part of a bid to topple that country’s socialist president, Nicolas Maduro. U.S. refineries s...
By Peter Harrell
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Trump to Sanction an International Court for Probing U.S. War Crimes
After weeks of national upheaval and soul-searching, the Trump administration is finally taking aggressive action to rein in a group of out-of-control law enforcement official...
By Neil Bhatiya
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CNAS Announces New Project on Export Controls and National Security
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a new initiative on export controls and their changing role in U.S. national security and economic ...
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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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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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Iran, Venezuela and other U.S. foes fight coronavirus amid American sanctions
In The News
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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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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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
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Coronavirus threatens the energy sector. Here's why
In The News
Since the first reports of the deadly coronavirus, oil prices have stumbled, shipments of U.S. liquefied natural gas have gone undelivered, production of solar equipment has l...
By Neil Bhatiya
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End of Cosco sanctions shows US reluctance for penalizing key oil market players: analysts
The Trump administration's decision to lift sanctions on affiliates of China's biggest shipping company may not be a sign the US "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran is weakeni...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
