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A U.S. Ban on Investing in Chinese AI Startups Could Escalate Under Trump
Late last month, the US Treasury Department finalized new restrictions limiting what kinds of Chinese tech startups US venture capital firms can invest in for national securit...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Set to Deepen Tech Cold War with China
Donald Trump launched a technological war against China in his first presidency. His next administration faces a much harder task: finishing it. ... On export controls — a typ...
By Thomas Krueger
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Loyalty Is Common Thread as Trump Fills Foreign Policy, Immigration Jobs
President-elect Donald Trump is stocking his cabinet and White House staff with loyalists with deep congressional experience who back his agenda on immigration and foreign pol...
By Richard Fontaine
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Export Controls Failed to Keep Cutting-Edge AI Chips from China’s Huawei
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn’t look right. Figuring out...
By Emily Kilcrease
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China Backs Russia-Proposed BRICS Payment System
Gathered Wednesday at a summit in the Russian city of Kazan, the members of BRICS adopted a joint declaration calling for the creation of an independent payment system based o...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Expands Sanctions on Iran Oil Sector Over Israel Attack
The US broadened the scope of its sanctions on Iran’s oil and gas sectors in response to a ballistic-missile attack on Israel, ramping up economic pressure on Tehran ahead of ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Shifting Goals Cloud Utility of Sanctions on Russia
The meeting, organized by Tufts professors Christopher Miller and Daniel Drezner, did not come up with a decisive answer to the key question: are the sanctions working — and t...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Debates Who Should Be Able to Buy American AI Chips
It’s been two years since the Biden administration reshaped the global semiconductor market by barring China from buying the best US chips. Then, 12 months later, officials ex...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Ready or Not: Are American Multinationals Prepared for the Taiwan Contingency?
Threading that needle might not be so simple if a major crisis is brewing in the strait. Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Security Pr...
By Emily Kilcrease
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The Withdrawal That Wasn't
Much of what the American forces are doing in Iraq is to support operations in Syria, which also will not see much of a change. There are roughly 900 U.S. troops in Syria, whe...
By Jonathan Lord
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Chinese EV Tech Ban Not an Overreaction: National Security Experts
Adam Tong, an associate fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said it’s better for the U.S. to get ahead of the threat rather than trying to fix it on the back end...
By Adam Tong
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Biden’s High-Wire Balancing Act on Chinese Tech
A new rule would effectively ban Chinese cars from the United States. Some experts worry about the costs of the sweeping approach....
By Geoffrey Gertz
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The Biggest Loser in Joe Biden’s Chinese Car Ban? It Could Well Be Elon Musk
Geoffrey Gertz, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, warned that China could now come after Tesla. “US automakers don’t see a big impact [on this ban],” ...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Biden Administration Proposes Ban on Chinese Software in Vehicles
Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security who is an author of the recently published book “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Ri...
By Richard Fontaine
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Nippon Steel Left Hunting Next Step as U.S. Takeover Flounders
A rejection of the deal could damp Japanese companies’ appetite to consider investing in the US, said Akira Igata, a lecturer at the University of Tokyo who specializes in eco...
By Akira Igata
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How National Security Has Transformed Economic Policy
“There is no set of norms, rules or institutions to guide these interventions, now that we have blown open the barn doors using national security justification,” says Emily Ki...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Where Should the Next U.S. President Take the China Relationship?
Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, notes that Trump 2.0 would also have “a lot of interest in things like revoking China’s permanent n...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Tough U.S. Sanctions Packages Are Here to Stay—Whether It’s Harris or Trump
Trump has touted his supposed special relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his views on the country differ substantially from most of the Democratic Party l...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Vies With Allies and Industry to Tighten China Tech Controls
The Biden administration is fighting to overcome opposition from allied nations and the tech industry as it prepares to expand restrictions aimed at slowing China’s ability to...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. to Broaden Scope of Russia Sanctions
“Secondary sanctions are intended to expand the US’s ability to pursue circumvention by actors who do not have any legal nexus with the US. It means the US can, in effect, enf...
By Emily Kilcrease