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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump’s Climate Agenda ‘May Push UAE Investors Away from U.S.’Masdar and the UAE’s other renewable energy companies may need to rethink their US investments now that President Donald Trump has pulled the plug on new offshore wind project...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Threatens Tariffs Over Immigration, Drugs and Greenland
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In his first week in office, President Trump tried to browbeat governments across the world into ending the flow of drugs into America, accepting planes full of deported migra...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Analysis: Should Putin Be Worried About Trump’s Threats of New Sanctions?By Rachel Ziemba
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
The Kremlin Shrugs At Trump's New Sanctions Threat. But Should Putin Be Worried?Since long before his inauguration this week and his election in November, President Donald Trump has been promising to broker an end to Russia's war against Ukraine while pro...
By Rachel Ziemba
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No Tariffs on Day One, but Trump Promises to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
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Donald Trump held off on tariffs on his first day as the president of the United States and is placing a big bet that his executive actions can cut energy prices and tame infl...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Incoming Trump Team Signals Tough Oil Sanctions Policy
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Key members of US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration have indicated support for robust sanctions actions on Russian, Iranian and Venezuelan oil exports, ba...
By Rachel Ziemba
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‘New’ Syria Is Up Against Economy Ravaged by War
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Syria’s economy has been decimated by more than a decade of civil war and sanctions that have severed it from the global financial system....
By Rachel Ziemba
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Millions in Bonds for Israel Put U.S. States at Odds with Investment PoliciesThe United States has long been Israel’s primary international backer, lending it vast political, diplomatic and financial support....
By Rachel Ziemba
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‘Blood Will Emerge from My Ear’: Experts Pounce on Trump’s New ‘Weaponization’ Threat
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Donald Trump Saturday made a threat to foreign countries on social media, leading one expert to say it amounts to "weaponization of the dollar." Trump over the weekend took to...
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Real Numbers Behind Trump’s Canada Tariff Threat
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The data point is just one of many that help to contextualise Donald Trump’s threat to hit Canada and Mexico with a 25 per cent tariffs on all goods. The tariffs, which will a...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Expands Sanctions on Iran Oil Sector Over Israel Attack
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The US broadened the scope of its sanctions on Iran’s oil and gas sectors in response to a ballistic-missile attack on Israel, ramping up economic pressure on Tehran ahead of ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Russia’s Wartime Production Fuels Its Economy“Russia’s economy shifted to war-economy mode,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “Nabiullina, her credentials, her exper...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Biden to Triple Tariffs on Chinese Steel Ahead of Reelection Bid
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Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, or CNAS, said the Biden administration is reviewing why some Chinese steel derivatives curre...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Yellen: U.S. Will Levy Sanctions Against Iran over Attack on Israel
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Among the most obvious remaining options is aggressively expanding sanctions on Chinese firms that have bought large quantities of Iranian crude oil exports, which have provid...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Ukraine’s Allies Keep Hitting Russia with More Sanctions — and Russia Keeps Finding Ways Around ThemSanctions have, to some extent, "achieved an economic shock to Russia," said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct fellow at the Centre for New American Security who tracks the impacts of...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Sanctions Oil Tankers, Targeting Iranian Funding for Russian, Houthi Arms
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The measures are targeted to Iran's involvement with regional terror groups and Russia's military supply chains, said Rachel Ziemba, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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U.S. Designates Houthis as a Global Terrorist Group, but Plans Big Sanctions Carveouts
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Even if a transaction is not flowing through the US financial system, large banks that operate throughout the world often take US designations into account, said a second seni...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Commodities 2024: Global Crude Supplies Seen Giving Biden Wiggle Room on Oil Sanctions
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US gasoline prices in 2024 will be a factor in any Biden administration decision to tighten oil-related sanctions in an election year when prices at the pump could sway voters...
By Rachel Ziemba
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How a Yemeni Rebel Group Is Creating Chaos in the Global Economy
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Some countries may feel the impact directly, such as the cash-strapped government of Egypt, which earns more than $9 billion a year from Suez Canal transit fees. But given the...
By Rachel Ziemba
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China Courts Saudi Arabia as Part of Its De-Dollarisation Strategy
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“I think this swap is one of several tools that China is using to increase their role in the global economy, or at least to signal their interest for that to happen,” says Rac...
By Rachel Ziemba
