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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Goes After Iran’s Supreme LeaderPresident Donald Trump has declined to strike Iran for now over the downing of an American drone. Instead, he chose to retaliate by reaching again for a favorite tool: economi...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Sanctions Iran’s Supreme Leader, but to What End?With the flourish of his pen on Monday, President Trump imposed sweeping sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as everyone in Khamenei’s office o...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Imposes Sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader, OthersThe Trump administration ordered new sanctions that aim to freeze the assets of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s office and several Iranian military commanders and include plans ...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Pompeo to push Iran pressure campaign, oil sanctions compliance while in India: State officialUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to India next week, but will offer no relief from oil sanctions to what was a top Iranian export market just two months ago, a se...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Administration ponders more Iran sanctions, but hasn't imposed them yet despite Trump's claimOne day after coming within minutes of military strikes on Iran, the Trump administration has backed off its threat and is now weighing imposing additional sanctions against T...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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‘Tariffs are the answer’: Trump appears emboldened after economic brinkmanship with Mexico
A sense of relief among Republicans and business leaders after President Trump postponed his tariff threats against Mexico gave way Monday to growing unease over whether he ha...
By Richard Fontaine
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Proliferation Finance: Critical Issues and Priorities for Congress
WMD proliferation networks employ sophisticated financial tactics to facilitate their malfeasance, and Congress has an important role to play in adopting measures that would s...
By Chris Estep & Clare Toner
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Can Iran withstand the US pressure?Ever since US President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled out from the nuclear deal with Tehran and reinstated the most draconian sanctions ever imposed, many have wondered whe...
By Neil Bhatiya
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China Raises Threat of Rare-Earths Cutoff to U.S.
With a simple visit to an obscure factory on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping has raised the specter that China could potentially cut off supplies of critical materials ne...
By Ashley Feng
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
As Trump escalates China trade dispute, economic ties lose stabilizing force in matters of national securityThe United States for years relied on economic interdependence with China as a stabilizing force in relations with Beijing, with business between the two nations forming what ...
By Ely Ratner
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Aims to Prevent Chinese Companies From Building 5G Network in U.S.US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that could prevent Chinese companies from building 5G networks in the US.“The president has made it clear that...
By Peter Harrell
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Democrats and Republicans are freaked out by Chinese 5G technology — but are they just being paranoid?Democrats and Republicans rarely agree on anything, but this week, the parties united to condemn one common enemy: China. The views of President Trump and lawmakers on both si...
By Peter Harrell
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
On Huawei and Autos, Trump Aligns Trade With U.S. SecurityPresident Donald Trump is taking his trade wars into a new realm likely to both extend them and make them harder to resolve. With his crackdown on Chinese telecom giant Huawe...
By Jude D. Blanchette
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Pentagon Builds Deterrent Force Against Possible Iranian Attack
The Pentagon will deploy a Patriot antimissile battery to the Middle East to shore up defenses against Iranian threats, part of a series of carefully calibrated deployments in...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Pompeo to push Russia to end support of Venezuela's Maduro
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to discuss Russia's ongoing support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, including ongoing oil and product trade that the Trump adm...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Exclusive: Documents Detail Meetings Of Russians With Treasury, Federal Reserve
Newly obtained documents describe what happened when two now-infamous Russians took their outreach campaign into the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve in 2015. Alexa...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump’s Iran policy is making war more likelyThe United States is in the midst of an extremely dangerous standoff with Iran — and President Donald Trump is mainly to blame. Exactly one year ago Wednesday, Trump withdrew ...
By Eric Brewer
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A Boom Time for U.S. Sanctions
The United States, as of this writing, has 7,967 sanctions in place. Treasury Department data show them in many sizes. There are sanctions on individual people, like the Mexi...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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US push to zero Iran oil exports may be more like 500,000 b/d: analysts
The Trump administration's push to bring Iranian crude exports to zero officially begins Thursday, but analysts believe Iran will continue to export roughly 500,000 b/d throug...
By Peter Harrell
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China, US face off on Iranian crude flows, with risks to global economy
China and the US are in an intense standoff over Iranian crude oil, with China indicating they may continue to import those medium and heavy barrels even after a sanctions wai...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg