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How a Battery Shortage Could Threaten US National Security
Bob Galyen has spent his career building electric car batteries. And he thinks the United States has a problem. Galyen, who engineered the battery for the General Motors EV1, ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Digital Yuan Showcases the Real Value of Bitcoin
The Beijing Winter Olympics are set to conclude on Sunday after two weeks of showcasing the best of human sportsmanship and, of course, controversy. But the event has also bee...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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China Is Showing Off the Digital Yuan at the Olympics. Can the U.S. Compete?
China is competing for more than just medals at the Winter Olympics in Beijing this month. It’s also quietly trying to define the future of money. Although attendees can pay v...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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U.S. Weighs China Factor in Drafting Plans to Punish Russia
The Biden administration, in devising what it vows would be punishing economic penalties if Russia were to attack Ukraine, is factoring in whether China would come to Moscow’s...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen Afghan Funds
President Biden is starting to clear a legal path for relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to pursue $3.5 billion that Afghanistan’s central bank had deposited ...
By Alex Zerden
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Treasury Urges Closer Watch on Money Laundering in Fine Art
Fine art isn’t just nice to look at — it’s also attractive to criminals trying to launder money, finance terrorism and trade illegal drugs and arms. And the Treasury Departmen...
By Michael Greenwald
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Putin, Facing Sanction Threats, Has Been Saving for This Day
Vladimir V. Putin’s posture toward the West through the recent Ukraine crisis seems unusually defiant, even for him. But there may be more behind his confidence than military ...
By Edward Fishman
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CNAS Responds: U.S. Sanctions on Russia
With Russian troops amassing on Ukraine's borders, the United States and its allies are stepping up the pressure to deter an invasion, with sanctions playing a key role in the...
By Emily Kilcrease, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Carisa Nietsche, Jim Townsend, Jason Bartlett, Rachel Ziemba, Edward Fishman & Daniel Silverberg
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Threat of Hard-Hitting Russia Sanctions Leaves U.S. Companies Planning for All Scenarios
U.S. companies with interests in Russia are rushing to draw up contingency plans as Washington threatens sanctions should President Vladimir Putin order troops into Ukraine. I...
By Alex Zerden
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For Economic Sanctions To Work Against Russia, the US and Its Allies Will Have To Share Some of the Pain
The Biden administration’s strategy for economic sanctions against Russia should it invade Ukraine could be summed up as “no pain, no gain.” With a military confrontation off ...
By Edward Fishman
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Should the U.S. Rattle Putin’s Cage?
Now that top Biden administration officials concede Russia is likely to invade Ukraine again, the biggest question roiling Washington is whether crushing sanctions would be mo...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Threatens Use of Novel Export Control to Damage Russia’s Strategic Industries if Moscow Invades Ukraine
The Biden administration is threatening to use a novel export control to damage strategic Russian industries, from artificial intelligence and quantum computing to civilian ae...
By Edward Fishman
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US Sanctions Would Hit Rouble, Force Russian Bank Bailout, Say Experts
The Biden administration’s threat to sanction US dollar transactions by Russian banks if the country invades Ukraine could set off a domestic financial crisis and even hasten ...
By Edward Fishman
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How to Help Afghans Without Aiding the Taliban
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, aid groups are overwhelmed by the starving. More than half the population, the United Nations has warned, won’t get enough to eat this winte...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Aims Sanctions at Pro-Russian Agents as Blinken Plans Ukraine, Russia Meetings
The U.S. is preparing financial sanctions on pro-Russian agents in Ukraine as Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Europe to meet the Ukrainian leadership and his Russia...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Kim Jong-un: 10 Years of Missiles, Murder and Economic Misery
Kim Jong Un was not even 30 when he took control of North Korea after his father’s death in December 2011. Some predicted that when the weight of ruling an entire country was ...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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The FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act
After weeks of delay, the United States Congress passed the long-awaited $770 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—setting the nation’s defense expenditures and p...
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Lithuania Shows China’s Coercive Trade Tactics Are Hard to Counter
It has been two weeks since the doors to the Chinese market slammed shut to Lithuanian products. Accounting for just 0.2 per cent of global exports, the Baltic nation’s proble...
By Emily Kilcrease
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North Korea’s Kim at Critical Crossroads Decade Into Rule
Since taking power following his father’s sudden death 10 years ago this week, Kim Jong Un has erased those widespread doubts that greeted his early attempts to extend his fam...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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The Situation on the Russia-Ukraine Border
As Russia's troop build-up near its border with Ukraine raises alarm bells in Washington and across Europe, the Biden administration is consulting with allies and considering ...