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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
New U.S. Sanctions on Iran Set Back French Mediation EffortsThe Trump administration cast new doubt Wednesday on efforts by France to ease tensions between the U.S. and Iran as Washington sanctioned what it called an Iranian “oil-for-t...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Mnuchin’s Bond Advisers Poised to Give Ultra-Longs Thumbs Down
The elite bond market group that advises Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on how best to manage America’s finances is likely to caution against his idea of reviving a plan to...
By Daleep Singh
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Europe’s Response to the Amazon Fires Shows How to Get Tough on Climate Change Outlaws
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is now planning to deploy the army to help fight the record number of fires raging in the Amazon rainforest. It would be a stretch to say th...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Explainer: What tools could Trump use to get U.S. firms to quit China?
Hours after China announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods on Friday, President Donald Trump ordered U.S. companies to “start looking for an alternative to China, including...
By Peter Harrell
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Trump wields sanctions hammer; experts wonder to what end
Call it the diplomacy of coercion. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or per...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump administration plans $8 billion fighter jet sale to Taiwan, angering ChinaThe Trump administration is pressing ahead with an $8 billion sale of new F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, a move likely to raise strong objections from China amid the deepening t...
By Eric Sayers
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China continued Iran oil imports in July in teeth of U.S. sanctions: analysts
China imported Iranian crude oil in July for the second month since a U.S. sanctions waiver ended, according to research from three data firms, with one estimate showing some ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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U.S. Sanctions Turn Iran’s Oil Industry Into Spy vs. Spy
They change offices every few months and store documents only in hard copy. They scan their businesses for covert listening devices and divert all office calls to their cellph...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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With Tougher U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela, Bolton Says ‘Now is the Time for Action’
An international summit meeting on Tuesday that was meant to break the political stalemate in Venezuela became a one-sided showcase for the United States’ toughest sanctions y...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Chevron's Venezuela waiver not impacted by new US prohibitions
President Donald Trump's executive order prohibiting nearly all crude, diluent and all other commercial trade with Venezuela will not immediately impact a waiver granted to Ch...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Currency War With China Dooms Trade TalksPresident Donald Trump’s trade war with China is turning into a currency war—dooming prospects for any sort of trade agreement between Washington and Beijing and ratcheting up...
By Rachel Ziemba
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US continues to debate fate of Venezuela waiver for Chevron, other companies
Roughly two days before a waiver which allowed Chevron and four US oil services companies to continue working in Venezuela's oil sector is set to expire, the Trump administrat...
By Neil Bhatiya
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CNAS Launches Task Force on the Future of U.S. Coercive Economic Statecraft
Read the report:...
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Lawmakers say Trump is locked into Turkey sanctions
After days of silence about whether Turkey will be punished for accepting a Russian-made air defense system, U.S. President Donald Trump reluctantly seemed to agree Turkey wil...
By Neil Bhatiya
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Russia looks for Asia LNG buyers to blunt Western sanctions' biteRussia is boosting Arctic production of liquefied natural gas to counter growing competition from the U.S. while looking to Asia's major energy importers to buffer projects ag...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump team weighs giving China a get-out-of-jail free card on IranThe State Department is seriously considering using an Obama-era loophole to allow China to import oil from Iran, violating the Trump administration’s pledge to bring Iranian ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
US keeps imposing sanctions, but how well do they work?Imposing sanctions has become the Trump administration's go-to move to signal to the country and the world that it's doing something about a problem. After President Donald Tr...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
U.S. and China agree to restart trade negotiations following meeting between Trump and Xi at Group of 20 summitPresident Trump’s decision Saturday to relax limits on Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei and to delay new tariffs on Chinese goods may revive stalled trade talks with Be...
By Ely Ratner
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump's latest Iran sanctions target $200B economic empire of supreme leaderThe Trump administration's latest sanctions against Iran reinstate an embargo on some of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's front companies that President Barack Obama lifted as pa...
By Sam Dorshimer
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Xi Jinping wants Trump to lift ban on Huawei before making a trade dealChinese President Xi Jinping is about to make a risky gamble to try to end the years-long trade spat between his country and the United States: asking President Donald Trump t...
By Eric Sayers