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China Fires Back at U.S. Sanctions
In The News
Why it matters: The sanctions expand on Beijing's previous efforts to criminalize certain kinds of research, intimidate individual researchers, and make it harder for companie...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Takes Aim at Financial Institutions with New Russia Sanctions Authority
In The News
The move comes as U.S. funding for Ukraine military aid is running out and the United States and its allies search for new ways to slow Russia's war effort. Washington already...
By Edward Fishman
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How a Yemeni Rebel Group Is Creating Chaos in the Global Economy
In The News
Some countries may feel the impact directly, such as the cash-strapped government of Egypt, which earns more than $9 billion a year from Suez Canal transit fees. But given the...
By Rachel Ziemba
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China Courts Saudi Arabia as Part of Its De-Dollarisation Strategy
In The News
“I think this swap is one of several tools that China is using to increase their role in the global economy, or at least to signal their interest for that to happen,” says Rac...
By Rachel Ziemba
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North Korea Test-fires Most Advanced ICBM With U.S. In Range
In The News
However, the North has yet to perfect those capabilities, according to Go Myong-hyun, a researcher at the Asian Institute for Policy Studies. "Regarding ICBMs, there are still...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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China Chip Firm Powered by U.S. Tech and Money Avoids Biden’s Crackdown
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Chinese tech companies with links to the Chinese military often get added to the entity list, but Brite has never faced such restrictions, public records show. "It sure seems ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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New CNAS Report: “No Winners in This Game: Assessing the U.S. Playbook for Sanctioning China”
Washington, December 1, 2023 – Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, No Winners in This Game: Assessing the U.S. Playbook for Sanctioning...
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Is Cryptocurrency Enabling Hamas? Efforts to Halt Terror Funding Revive.
In The News
“It’s a space of finite resources and constantly changing prioritization,” says Alex Zerden, a terror-financing expert formerly at the U.S. Treasury and now head of his own ri...
By Alex Zerden
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Turkey’s Exports of Military-Linked Goods to Russia Soar
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The trade flourishes by exploiting regulatory gaps between US export controls and EU enforcement, according to Emily Kilcrease, director of the Energy, Economics and Security ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Mideast Wealth Funds Draw Greater US Scrutiny Over China Ties
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Last month, the US House Select Committee on China sought information about Sequoia Capital’s investments into artificial intelligence, semiconductor and quantum computing com...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Binance Penalties Include a Number of Crypto Industry Firsts
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The CFTC also imposed charges and fines against Binance’s former chief compliance officer, Samuel Lim, an action a CFTC commissioner said should serve as a message to the cryp...
By Alex Zerden
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New Binance CEO Teng’s First Job Is to Avert Customer Exodus
In The News
Binance exploded onto the crypto scene in 2017 and saw its market share surge to more than 60% worldwide after the fall of FTX in November 2022. Since then, its combined marke...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Plans to Counter China’s Influence in the Pacific Suffers Setback
In The News
Speaking on the sidelines of the summit in San Francisco this week, Farrell had a slightly different view telling this masthead that he was “disappointed that we are not going...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Korea, U.S., Japan show off strength of trilateral ties at APEC
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They shared the belief that military security can be enhanced through advanced technologies, so technological partners should have a "100 percent agreement" on each other's mi...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Companies, Tankers for Violating G7-Led Price Cap on Russian Crude
In The News
The new sanctions are a part of the shift that the US took towards enforcement of the price cap in October, and they may lead G7 companies to become more reluctant to trade wi...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. and China Work to Stabilise Relationship, but Biden Still Says Xi Is a Dictator
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And in terms of China, many are uncertain about what today’s meeting will achieve. “Beijing’s actions over the coming weeks and months will ultimately prove the value of this ...
By Jacob Stokes
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CNAS Responds: APEC Summit
Press Note
Today, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit commenced in San Francisco, California, kicking off with a four-hour meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Ge...
By Emily Kilcrease & Jacob Stokes
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to Meet in Effort to Stabilize Relations
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Over the past few months, several US cabinet secretaries have visited Beijing, partly in recognition that Washington needed to boost high-level engagement to reduce miscommuni...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Hot Air over Koreas — Fresh Balloon Flights into North Spark Tension
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The North’s threatening rhetoric in the face of the moves has largely been shrugged off in Seoul. No unusual military movements have been detected in the North, and South Kore...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Is Crypto Financing Terrorism?
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Alex Zerden, founder of the risk advisory firm Capitol Peak Strategies and a former official at the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, told DealBook th...
By Alex Zerden
