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S.Korea elects conservative outsider as president in tectonic shift
In The News
Conservative South Korean opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol rode to victory in a tight presidential election on a wave of discontent over economic policy, scandals and gender...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian Soldiers
Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a short video on Telegram, in which a cheery bearded soldier stood before a line of tanks clanking down a road under an overcast sky. I...
By Ryan Fedasiuk
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Japan cautiously welcomes South Korean president-elect
Japan’s government on Thursday welcomed the election of a new president in South Korea who supports stronger ties with Washington and Tokyo, as officials and experts expressed...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Why record-high gas prices won't be solved by drilling more oil in the US
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There are many reasons for this, but the biggest one is that oil is truly a global commodity, experts told CNN. The global price of oil determines gas prices in the US, and it...
By Rachel Ziemba
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'A rush to failure': How the Russian military started off so badly in Ukraine
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The first week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine does not appear to have gone to plan. Russia's attempts at a fast-paced assault haven't brought its forces inside Kyiv, the capi...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Conservative Election Win in South Korea Shows Hawkish Turn
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Former top prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol won election as South Korea’s president, returning the conservative opposition to power after five years and signaling a hawkish turn in th...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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Why Did Russia Invade Ukraine Now?
For the four months it took President Vladimir Putin to concentrate the Russian forces and firepower to launch what he thought would be a blitzkrieg into Ukraine, the world wa...
By Jim Townsend
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Aligning U.S.-Israeli Cooperation on Technology Issues and China
Press Release
Washington, March 9, 2022—The United States and Israel have a long history of working together as close allies. In recent years, however, the United States and Israel have dif...
By Jonathan Schanzer, Shira Efron, Martijn Rasser & Alice Hickson
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Ukraine crisis: What sanctions could West still impose on Russia?
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In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US, UK, EU and more than two dozen other nations retaliated with economic measures that have sent the Russian rouble tumbling,...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Battered Mexican peso leads Latam FX higher, rouble hits record low
The peso was on track to recover a chunk of its 3.5% loss made over the last four sessions. Data showed annual inflation in Mexico accelerated faster than expected in February...
By Rachel Ziemba
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White House eyes new sanctions on lawmakers in Russian parliament as part of financial attack on Moscow
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The White House is weighing new sanctions against lawmakers in the upper-chamber of the Russian parliament, as the United States seeks to increase financial pressure on Russia...
By Edward Fishman
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How Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Weighs on China’s Economy
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China's top political leaders are meeting in Beijing this week and have announced the country’s new GDP goal for 2022, a major benchmark that Premier Li Keqiang has said will ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Intermediaries seek diplomatic opening, despite gloom about Putin’s aims in Ukraine
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Some officials trying to advance talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the war are seeing positions shift ever so slightly in Moscow and Kyiv, but a huge gap remains to be b...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Russia’s AI industry faces collapse
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2017 proclamation that whichever country leads in artificial intelligence “will be the ruler of the world” may come back to haunt him. New t...
By Martijn Rasser
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Biden Pressured From All Sides on Ukraine Response
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The prospect of congressionally passed sanctions — combined with the fact that the US gets relatively little petroleum product from Russia — probably explains the Biden admini...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Russians look to UAE to escape economic turmoil as sanctions bite
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"The first question I have when Russian clients call me is 'where is the money?'" Almas, a real estate broker in Dubai, told Middle East Eye. The 55-year-old Russian speaker,...
By Alex Zerden
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'The moral equivalent of blood diamonds'
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As President Joe Biden wages an economic war against Russia, he’s facing difficult tradeoffs in his domestic battle against inflation. White House officials are keenly aware t...
By Rachel Ziemba
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War in the time of crypto
In times of crisis, there is no good; there’s only a best course of action, given the circumstances. Is crypto good in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Is it bad? ...
By Alex Zerden
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NOTEWORTHY: The New Russia Export Controls
Press Note
Emily Kilcrease, Senior Fellow and Director of the Economics, Energy, and Security program at the Center for a New American Security weighs in with expert commentary and analy...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Russia is deploying brutal siege tactics in Ukraine
In The News
The Russian assault on Ukraine is ongoing, with Russian forces moving on major population centers including Mariupol in the southeast and the capital, Kyiv. As the war moves i...
