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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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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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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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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
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Mnuchin Tried to Force a Sale of TikTok. Now He’s a Possible Bidder.
Emily Kilcrease, a former CFIUS coordinator at the Commerce Department, said she could not comment on the TikTok probe. But Kilcrease, who now serves as director of the energy...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Joe Biden Declares Opposition to Nippon Steel’s Takeover of U.S. Steel
“Based on past practice, it is likely that Cfius would have been on track to clear the deal, likely with some conditions related to protection of domestic steel production and...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Emily Kilcrease on Gaming China’s Sanctions Response
The researcher talks about why it would be much trickier to place sanctions on China in any future conflict than on Russia and where the U.S. might have the most leverage. Rea...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Lawmakers Tune Out TikTok Lobbying to Advance Bill to Ban App
A big question is whether the Senate will back the legislation as previous bills have stumbled. Emily Kilcrease, a technology and trade expert at the Center for a New American...
By Emily Kilcrease
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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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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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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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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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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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U.S. Plans to Counter China’s Influence in the Pacific Suffers Setback
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