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U.S. Campaign to Isolate Russia Shows Limits After 2 Years of War
“In the here and now, the sanctions have disappointed,” said Edward Fishman, a former State Department official in the Obama administration who oversaw Russia sanctions after ...
By Edward Fishman
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Plans to Expand U.S. Chip Manufacturing Are Running Into Obstacles
The delays come as the Biden administration begins dispensing the first major awards from a $39 billion pot of money aimed at building up the U.S. semiconductor industry and r...
By Emily Kilcrease
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VCs Face Fresh Scrutiny Over China Investments as Geopolitical Pressures Build
Now, slowing China’s long-running, multi-billion-dollar effort to catch up with the US in chip technology has become a lynchpin of America’s China policy. AI, where the US als...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Another Sign China's Economy Is in Deep Trouble
Emily Jin, a research associate at the Center for a New American Security think tank, told Newsweek China's real estate market slump and falling consumer spending—already majo...
By Emily Jin
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U.S. House China Panel Calls Intel, Nvidia and Micron Heads to Testify
The commitee this week sent letters to Intel, Nvidia and Micron summoning their chief executives to testify, according to everal people familiar with the situation. The move i...
By Emily Kilcrease
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NK Likely to Continue Provocations for Greater Leverage Before Elections
“Rather than having a direct influence on the general elections, the North appears to be seeking conflicts within South Korea and heightened tensions through the provocations ...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Japanese Company’s Bid for U.S. Steel Tests Biden’s Industrial Policy
Independent experts say it would be well within historical norms for the committee to evaluate the sale. That will likely include a detailed economic analysis of whether the d...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Noteworthy: House Select Committee on CCP Report on Economic Competition
Key Findings and Recommendations Pillar I: Reset the Terms of Our Economic Relationship With the People’s Republic of China For decades, the PRC has failed to live up to its W...
By Emily Kilcrease, Vivek Chilukuri, Andrew Metrick, Tim Fist & Caleb Withers
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Commodities 2024: Global Crude Supplies Seen Giving Biden Wiggle Room on Oil Sanctions
US gasoline prices in 2024 will be a factor in any Biden administration decision to tighten oil-related sanctions in an election year when prices at the pump could sway voters...
By Rachel Ziemba
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China Fires Back at U.S. Sanctions
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
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
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
“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
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
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.
“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
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
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
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