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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Oil Surges, Gas Tops $3 Nationwide as War Heats Up. What Comes Next?Oil prices traded higher March 3 as the U.S.-Israel-Iran war widened, setting up steeper prices for some of the items American consumers depend on....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Pentagon pressures Anthropic on AI accessUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's threat to cut AI group Anthropic from government supply chains, or possibly compel it to prioritize government orders, raises several serio...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Inside Anthropic’s Existential Negotiations with the Pentagon
Anthropic’s weekslong battle with the Department of Defense has played out over social media posts, admonishing public statements, and direct quotes from unnamed Pentagon offi...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump’s Threat of 15% Tariffs Adds to Gulf’s ‘Macroeconomic Volatility'US President Donald Trump’s threat this weekend to raise global tariffs to 15 per cent from 10 per cent adds to macroeconomic volatility for the Gulf region, although any impa...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Brings in New 10% Tariff as Supreme Court Rejects His Global Import Taxes
US President Donald Trump has imposed a new 10% global tariff to replace ones struck down by the Supreme Court, calling the ruling "terrible" and lambasting the justices who r...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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U.S. Sanctions in Latin America Have Increased. But Can They Be Enforced?
“Cartels are inherently sanctions-evading organizations,” said Kyle Rutter, a researcher at the Center for a New American Security think tank. “It’s a constant game of whack-a...
By Kyle Rutter
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U.S. President Trump Promises New Tariffs, Slams Supreme Court Decision
United States President Donald Trump has slammed the Supreme Court as a “disgrace” after a 6-3 ruling that struck down his global tariffs, asserting that he will maintain the ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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In Major Blow to Trump, U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down His Global Tariffs
The United States Supreme Court has struck down US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, rejecting one ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Former U.S. State Department Official Optimistic USMCA Will Be Renewed
By Edward Fishman
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Trump Administration’s Venezuela Approach Gets Murkier
Nearly six weeks after the Trump administration ousted Venezuela’s leader with plans to effectively run the country, its manner of doing so is increasingly opaque....
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Takes Energy Leverage to New Heights
Energy markets, oil firms, producers and major importers have lived with the impact of US sanctions on the energy trade for decades. But the levers the administration of Presi...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Sheinbaum Warns of Deeper Cuba Crisis After Trump Oil Threat
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned that the latest US tariffs threatened by Donald Trump on goods from countries that support Cuba with critical energy supplies could ...
By Chris Kennedy
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Cuba Decries Trump’s ‘Genocidal’ Threat, Girds for Calamity
Cuba hit back at Donald Trump’s plans to use tariffs to choke off all oil supplies to the struggling island, calling it extortionary and declaring an emergency with conditions...
By Chris Kennedy
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Trump Administration Pushes Out Official Whose Unit Banned Chinese Vehicles
President Donald Trump's administration has pushed out a Commerce Department official whose office effectively barred nearly all Chinese cars from the US market for national ...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Trump Wants U.S. Investment in Venezuela, but Sanctions Still Complicate It
President Trump is trying to kick-start private investment in Venezuela while maintaining considerable control over the country and the companies that are allowed to do busine...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Greenland Escalation Risks a Different Kind of Trade War. How It Could Play Out.
The tariff tit-for-tat is back, this time between the U.S. and Europe as President Donald Trump amps up the pressure on the continent in his effort to annex Greenland, a terri...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Carney’s EV Deal with Beijing Is High-Wire Diplomacy with Risks on Both Sides
One day before Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing, U.S. President Donald Trump offered his latest dismissal of the Canadian auto industry. The North American free-t...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Edward Fishman on Economic Chokepoints
Edward Fishman is a CNAS adjunct senior fellow and Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center on Geoeconomic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. He is al...
By Edward Fishman
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TikTok Still a U.S. Security Risk, Defamation Suits & Free Speech and Other Commentary
“Almost everybody in the U.S. government agrees that TikTok represents a serious national security risk” . . . except President Trump, gripes National Review’s Jim Geraghty. T...
By Liza Tobin
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Venezuela Sends Oil Tankers Under Naval Escort After Trump Declares Maritime Blockade
According to sources familiar with the matter, several commercial ships departed Venezuela’s eastern coast between the evening of December 16 and the morning of December 17 un...
By Edward Fishman