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Supreme Court’s Skepticism on Trump Tariffs Means Uncertainty Reigns
President Donald Trump’s use of broad powers to impose his signature tariffs faced a barrage of skeptical questions at the Supreme Court on Wednesday that signal it may be rea...
By Rachel Ziemba
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What If Trump’s Tariffs Are Illegal? It’s Everybody’s Problem
Opponents of President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are finally getting their day in the U.S. Supreme Court....
By Emily Kilcrease
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Tariffs Are Trump’s Favorite Foreign Policy Tool. The Supreme Court Could Change How He Uses Them
President Donald Trump sees tariffs — or the threat of them — as a powerful tool to bend nations to his will....
By Emily Kilcrease
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China Talks Put Markets at Ease, for Now
The first in-person meeting in six years between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping brought a round of mutual concessions on issues underpinning recent tensi...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump-Xi ‘Amazing’ Summit Brings Tactical Truce, Not Major ResetU.S. President Donald Trump hailed a meeting with China's Xi Jinping as "amazing" and "12" on a 10-point scale, but the agreement the two leaders reached appears to be no more...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Has Made U.S.-China Relations All About TradeUnder Trump, trade has come to be the dominant theme of the relationship between the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies....
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
‘Grand Bargain’ Between Trump and Xi UnlikelyThe Trump-Xi meeting is unlikely to result in the “grand bargain” that some may hope for, said Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Secur...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Lakshmi Mittal’s Energy Venture Bought Russian Oil Transported on Blacklisted Ships
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s energy joint venture in India has bought Russian oil transported on sanctions-listed vessels, according to an analysis of satellite imagery, ship...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Syria’s Fractured Banking Sector Poses New Challenge for U.S. Regulators
Syria is continuing to focus on attracting foreign investment as it seeks to be reintegrated into the global financial system, but the country’s damaged banking sector poses a...
By Alex Zerden
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With Power Move On Rare Earths, China Plays Both Victim and Bully
In Beijing’s version of the trade war, the United States is the bully and China is a victim, a rising power trying to protect the global economy while Washington unfairly hurl...
By Emily Kilcrease
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With Power Move On Rare Earths, China Plays Both Victim and Bully
By Emily Kilcrease
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Exclusive: U.S. Mulls Curbs on Exports to China Made with U.S. Software, Sources Say
The Trump administration is considering a plan to curb a dizzying array of software-powered exports to China, from laptops to jet engines, to retaliate against Beijing's lates...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Hits Top Russian Oil Companies with Sanctions, EU Bans Russian LNG
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia for the first time in his second term, targeting oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft as his f...
By Edward Fishman
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“A Really Powerful Tool”
The Entity List has become one of America’s favorite weapons in its economic arsenal. The Trump administration just increased it by more than 20,000 companies, provoking ire f...
By Emily Kilcrease
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China’s New Weapon in U.S. Trade Talks: Batteries
The US is heavily reliant on Chinese batteries as it seeks to stabilize the grid and support explosive data center demand for power....
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Wanted a Trade Deal. Xi Opened a New Front Instead.
Beijing shattered a fragile trade truce with Washington this week, announcing sweeping restrictions on exports that contain even trace amounts of Chinese rare earth....
By Liza Tobin
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
China Flexes Rare Earth Leverage. What That Could Mean for Trump-Xi Meet.China unveiled more expansive export restrictions for its rare earth supply chain on Thursday, just weeks before President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expec...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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White House Equity Grabs Deepen Pivot to State Capitalism
The Trump administration has signalled that its strategy of taking equity in private companies to secure critical supply chains is just beginning, laying bare to domestic and ...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Why the Trump Administration’s 50 Percent Rule Is a Big Deal for Exports to China
Since President Trump first took office eight years ago, the United States has added almost 1,000 Chinese companies to a trade blacklist known as the Entity List. A rule chang...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Expands Global Technology Net with Rules Covering Subsidiaries
The Trump administration sought to close a potential loophole in its global technology restrictions on Monday by expanding the range of companies that are subject to sanctions...
By Emily Kilcrease