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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?
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
"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'
In The News
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...
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China Opposes Sanctions and Has a Reputation for Busting Them
In The News
Under international agreements, North Korea isn’t supposed to be able to export its coal. That its smugglers have been doing so right under China’s nose is one reason Beijing ...
By Jason Bartlett
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Russia's Ukraine Invasion Lifts Defense Stocks, Upends Years Of Military Austerity In Europe
In The News
As an anxious world watched Russia deploy soldiers along its border with Ukraine in January, Germany offered to send Ukrainian troops 5,000 helmets. The offer — coming from a ...
By Carisa Nietsche
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As the world rallies to condemn Russia, India remains silent on the sidelines
As most of the world joins together to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one holdout stands out: India. The world’s largest democracy and one of its fastest growing econo...
By Lisa Curtis
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Bitcoin sanctions could be next, but most Russians won’t care
In The News
As Moscow’s war on Ukraine rages on and the Russian economy and currency spiral to new lows, Washington is reportedly trying out a new way to dial up the pressure on Putin: sa...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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2021 Pitch Contest Winners Building the next generation of national security thinkers and leaders: Building the next generation of national security thinkers and leaders
Press Release
Washington, March 3, 2022—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is proud to publish policy insights from the winners of the 2021 Pitch competition. The Pitch began in ...
By Megan Lamberth
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Biden delegation backs Taiwan amid China threat, Ukraine war
In The News
Former top defense and security officials sent by U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Taipei late Tuesday to shore up Taiwan's international support in the face of threats fro...
By Kelley Eckels Currie
