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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Companies, Tankers for Violating G7-Led Price Cap on Russian Crude
The new sanctions are a part of the shift that the US took towards enforcement of the price cap in October, and they may lead G7 companies to become more reluctant to trade wi...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S. and China Work to Stabilise Relationship, but Biden Still Says Xi Is a DictatorAnd in terms of China, many are uncertain about what today’s meeting will achieve. “Beijing’s actions over the coming weeks and months will ultimately prove the value of this ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
CNAS Responds: APEC SummitToday, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit commenced in San Francisco, California, kicking off with a four-hour meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Ge...
By Emily Kilcrease & Jacob Stokes
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to Meet in Effort to Stabilize Relations
Over the past few months, several US cabinet secretaries have visited Beijing, partly in recognition that Washington needed to boost high-level engagement to reduce miscommuni...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Hot Air over Koreas — Fresh Balloon Flights into North Spark TensionThe North’s threatening rhetoric in the face of the moves has largely been shrugged off in Seoul. No unusual military movements have been detected in the North, and South Kore...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Is Crypto Financing Terrorism?
Alex Zerden, founder of the risk advisory firm Capitol Peak Strategies and a former official at the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, told DealBook th...
By Alex Zerden
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Biden Turns a Few More Screws on China’s Chip Industry
“I don’t think that they shift the landscape as significantly” as last year’s, said Emily Kilcrease, director of the energy, economics, and security program at the Center for ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
How the West—and Israel Itself—Inadvertently Funded HamasThe flow of money illustrates the conundrum Israel and the West have faced since 2007, when Hamas wrested control of the strip from its rival, the internationally recognized P...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Targets Crypto Mixers Over Money Laundering Risks
FinCEN’s proposal could have a chilling effect by further associating certain crypto activities with terrorist financing and money laundering, according to Alex Zerden, a form...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Throws Nvidia a Lifeline While Choking Off China’s Chipmaking Future
The rules were designed to curtail China's ability to exploit American chips to build massive supercomputers that can be used to create technologies similar to OpenAI's ChatGP...
By Thomas Krueger
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S. Hits Hamas Financiers With Sanctions in Response to Israel Attack“The practical effect of this is that it makes it almost impossible for these individuals and entities to interact with the U.S. financial system, and by virtue of that, with ...
By Alex Zerden
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China's Belt and Road: Will Xi's Economic Centerpiece Last Another Decade?
Lower-income BRI partnered countries' struggles to make payments, as well as Beijing's aggressive deleveraging efforts in the wake of China's ongoing property crisis. have mad...
By Emily Jin
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Explainer: Biden Combines Billions in Chipmaking Grants with China Curbs to Keep U.S. Ahead
As the United States has slashed the amount of top technology headed to China, it has also been using the promise of billions of dollars of funding to entice non-Chinese chipm...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
‘They’re Opportunistic and Adaptive’: How Hamas Is Using Cryptocurrency to Raise FundsHamas’ use of digital currency represents just one of the many ways the group – designated a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union – has sought to rai...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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China Data Brokers Find Opportunity amid Growing Restrictions
Open-source intelligence companies are seeing a business opportunity amid rising demand for China-related business and economic data. "Private-sector actors are increasingly r...
By Alex Zerden
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Out of Bounds: Pushback to President Biden's executive order on outbound investment has been swift from all sides.
“The U.S. is relying on diplomatic efforts to get allies and partners to stand up similar mechanisms on outbound investment and not backfill for U.S. investors and tech compan...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Will Saudi, UAE accession transform BRICS?
But major differences between the founding BRICS countries and new potential members will probably significantly impact the bloc’s future. Rachel Ziemba, an Adjunct Senior Fel...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Gifts, Gadgets and Greece: Inside a Huawei Lobbying Campaign
“Huawei views the U.S. actions as an existential threat,” said Emily Kilcrease, a former deputy assistant U.S. trade representative who studies the U.S.-Chinese economic relat...
By Emily Kilcrease
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US resumes some drone operations in Niger for force protection
Air Base 201 near Agadez has played a critical role in the U.S. military’s efforts to counter violent extremist groups in West Africa, Jocelyn Trainer, an expert on sub-Sahara...
By Jocelyn Trainer
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Taliban Sell Afghanistan's Mines Despite Sanctions
“U.S. sanctions generally require U.S. persons and some foreign persons to comply,” said Alex Zerden, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “A foreign company co...
By Alex Zerden