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North Korea’s Sanctions-Busting Gets More Sophisticated—and More Lucrative
Commentary
As a United Nations report revealed earlier this month, North Korea continues to dodge international sanctions and raise money for its nuclear weapons program, despite attempt...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Great-Power Competition Is Washington’s Top Priority—But Not the Public’s
Commentary
For all the acrimony in Washington today, the city’s foreign policy establishment is settling on a rare bipartisan consensus: that the world has entered a new era of great-pow...
By Richard Fontaine
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Welcome to the New Phase of US-China Tech Competition
Commentary
It came without a breaking news alert or presidential tweet, but the technological competition with China entered a new phase last month. Several developments quietly heralded...
By Ashley Feng & Lorand Laskai
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How to Reform IEEPA
Commentary
Over the weekend, President Trump cited a 1977 statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as providing the legal authority he would need to carry throug...
By Peter Harrell
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Iran Under Sanctions: A Scramble For Cancer Care And Blame To Go Around
Podcast
At a cancer treatment center in Iran's capital of Tehran, a doctor's fight to treat her cancer patients has become harder. As U.S. sanctions sink in, the flow of medicine and ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Could the trade war with China topple the US oil sanctions framework?
Podcast
Tariffs, retaliatory tariffs and currency fights, the US and China are locked in a trade war with massive consequences for the global economy. What impact will this fight h...
By Neil Bhatiya & Ashley Feng
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Two Years of North Korean Coal Export Restrictions
Video
Two years have passed since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2371, which prohibits North Korea from exporting coal. Yet there has been a big shift in China's imports...
By Ashley Feng
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Congress Is Gearing Up for a Bigger Fight With Trump Over Russia Policy
Commentary
After a long delay, the Trump administration finally took the first steps in a legally mandated effort to punish Russia for its use of chemical weapons in the 2018 poisoning o...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Meeting the Challenge of Secondary Sanctions
Podcast
The second episode of ECFR’s summer series on strategic sovereignty explores the critical challenge that secondary sanctions pose for Europe, due to the Trump administration’s...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Trump Can’t Stop Putin From Poaching U.S. Allies
Commentary
On July 17, the United States finally decided to suspend Turkey’s participation in the F-35 fighter jet program, a move made in retaliation for Turkey’s acceptance of the Russ...
By Mark Simakovsky & Edward Fishman
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New U.S. Sanctions on Iran Reveal China’s Growing Role in Illicit Supply Chains
Commentary
On July 18, in the Trump administration’s first punitive measure since Iran announced earlier this month that it would exceed the levels of enriched uranium permitted under th...
By Neil Bhatiya
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North Korea's economy
Podcast
North Korea has seized a Russian fishing boat within its territorial waters. The seizure says a lot about the richness of the fisheries off North Korea but also about their im...
By Neil Bhatiya
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CSR Podcast Episode 1: Elizabeth Threlkeld and Neil Bhatiya on Pakistan
Podcast
What happens in Pakistan is critical to the security and stability of its people, its region, and the world. The inaugural episode of the Council on Strategic Risks Podcast Ne...
By Neil Bhatiya
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CNAS Launches Task Force on the Future of U.S. Coercive Economic Statecraft
Washington, July 23, 2019 – The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Energy, Economics, and Security Program today announced the launch of the Task Force on the Future of...
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Important not to lose sight of long-term issues facing China: Expert
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Rachel Ziemba discusses China's latest GDP data. View the full conversation on CNBC....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Elizabeth Rosenberg Joins CNN to Discuss U.S. Policy Toward North Korea
Video
The parents of the late Otto Warmbier have filed a claim for the North Korean ship "Wise Honest," which was seized by the United States in May after violating United Nations s...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Can Tariffs and Sanctions Lead to a Better Climate Change Strategy?
Commentary
A little more than two years since he announced in the Rose Garden that the United States was “getting out” of the Paris climate change agreement, President Donald Trump was i...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Reforming National Security Tariff Tools: Issues and Recommendations for Policymakers
Commentary
Introduction President Trump’s late-May threat to impose tariffs on U.S. imports from Mexico in response to illegal immigration, and ongoing threat of tariffs against U.S. aut...
By Peter Harrell
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Trump Keeps ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran, Even Though It Is Failing in Venezuela
Commentary
Escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf peaked last week when President Donald Trump abruptly canceled U.S. airstrikes against Iranian military assets, after Iran shot down an...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Sanctions, insults and threats: the state of U.S.-Iran relations
Podcast
President Trump imposed new sanctions on Tuesday aimed at Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and threatened the Republic by saying an attack by Iran on “anything Am...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
