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Saudi Arabia’s digital dream: Silicon Valley for the Middle East
Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, says: “Saudi Arabia has a lot of ambitions. But as we’ve seen around the world...
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Sanctions Sieve
“If you’re using a tool, and you’re still seeing the problematic behavior, you do have to consider using a harsher tool,” says Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow at CNAS and for...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Could Sanction Chinese Firms if Beijing Sends Arms to Russia
The United States would likely respond to a stepped-up Chinese military aid effort by punishing the specific Chinese companies and financial institutions involved, as it did e...
By Edward Fishman
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TikTok is in serious danger after a brutal Congressional hearing
The proposal with the most momentum — and backing from the White House — is a bill from Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va. and John Thune, R-S.D. that would create a new framework for e...
By Emily Kilcrease
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With Few Good Tools, Biden Needs New Law to Ban TikTok, experts say
Courts blocked a prior bid by the Trump administration to ban the app in part on the grounds that such a move violated free speech protections. That means any move to block th...
By Emily Kilcrease
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'No Other Option': Russia's Unequal Economic Marriage with China
Since Western countries imposed sanctions on Moscow, bilateral trade between the two neighbours has reached a record $190 billion and the proportion of Russian foreign trade c...
By Elina Ribakova
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China Watches U.S. Banking Crisis
"A lot of people on both the U.S. and the Chinese side are pontificating about global financial contagion, or that Chinese startups are going to suffer and won't be able to ge...
By Emily Jin
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Is This TikTok’s Huawei Moment?
“There’s a couple of factors that are probably playing into this shift that we’re seeing outside of the United States,” said Emily Kilcrease, senior fellow and director of the...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
North Korea launches 2 cruise missiles from submarine ahead of US-South Korea military drillsNorth Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South Korean military...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Senate Bill Paves Way for US TikTok Ban
Emily Kilcrease, a technology and security expert at the CNAS think-tank, called the bill "a very serious effort to provide a real regulatory and legal framework for addressin...
By Emily Kilcrease
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What can Russian sanctions achieve?
"You can try to sanction Putin and his oligarch cronies, but there's no way that you're going to bankrupt them," Eddie Fishman says. ... "Historically, sanctions have a mixed ...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Treasury’s Updated Sanctions Strategy Against Russia
Last Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo laid out the Biden Administration’s updated strategy for using sancti...
By Alex Zerden
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Global Financial Watchdog Suspends Russia’s Membership“The measure is both an important political statement as well as a recognition of the threats to the global financial system posed by Russia. The FATF identified Russia’s invo...
By Alex Zerden
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Putin’s Wartime Bluster Obscures Russia’s Precarious FutureSanctions imposed by Group of Seven (G-7) countries — the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom — and the European Union are aimed at strangling P...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Sanctions on Russian Bank Raise Questions About ‘sanctions-proofing’ in Gulf
Rachel Ziemba, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security, told Middle East Eye the bank was “ahead of the curve" in establishing itself in the UAE, to take ...
By Alex Zerden & Rachel Ziemba
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Frozen Afghan Funds Have Done Little to Sway Taliban
The U.S. has stepped up use of economic sanctions and asset seizures in the past two years as a foreign-policy mechanism against Afghanistan as well as Russia. In the case of ...
By Alex Zerden
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How Russia Is Surviving the Tightening Grip on Its Oil Revenue
The gradual ratcheting up of oil sanctions, which are designed to cut Russia’s oil export revenues without snuffing out a fragile global pandemic recovery, is a policy that an...
By Edward Fishman
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Latam FX Rises against Softer Dollar, Vale Weighs on Brazil’s Bovespa
The IMACEC economic activity index of the world's largest copper producer still ended 2022 in negative territory as it faced a slowdown after a rapid post-pandemic recovery. T...
By Rachel Ziemba
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New Cryptocurrency Unlikely to Help Russia and Iran Evade Sanctions
It appears that Russia now sees cryptocurrency as a tool for engaging in bilateral trade with Iran, and a way to pay for those drones. By January 2023, the Russian news agency...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Leans on Turkey to End Russian Flights with American-Made Planes
The warning to Turkey is a key test of whether the U.S. and its allies can succeed in isolating Russia over the long term, or whether Moscow can find a way to continue economi...
By Emily Kilcrease