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‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China
By squeezing on the industry’s natural choke points, the Biden administration aims to block China from the future of chip technology. The effects will go far beyond cutting in...
By Emily Kilcrease
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US airstrikes kill 10 al-Shabab fighters as Somalia deteriorates
The security situation in Somalia is in danger of deteriorating after the last African Union troops leave the country, said Jocelyn Trainer, an expert on the Horn of Africa wi...
By Jocelyn Trainer
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Binance Feels Strain of World’s Regulators Leaping Into Action
“The operating environment is going to be more difficult for entities that want to operate in an undefined regulatory location,” said Yaya Fanusie, director of policy for AML ...
By Yaya J. Fanusie & Alex Zerden
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This is the state of play at Huawei under sanctions
In spite of the sanctions, 113 applications by U.S. suppliers to ship tech to Huawei were approved from November 2020 to April 2021, accounting for $61 billion in potential bu...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Russian Military Uses China in Sourcing Banned Tech from 59 U.S. Firms
Moscow has less access to cutting-edge components than it did before the war, and it's widely believed that over time the export controls will further degrade Russia's defense...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Jump in Economic Sanctions Spurs Boom in ‘Murky Trade’
“Some of what we’ll continue to see is one-off, ad-hoc arrangements,” said Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “This makes it co...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Why some lawmakers are livid over the ‘shameless’ PGA Tour-LIV merger
Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security told The Hill that publicly available information on the deal seems to indicate a merger where the Sau...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Feeling left out: northern Ontario junior miners want more critical minerals funding
Rachel Ziemba is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. She said there is an increasing recognition of how important...
By Rachel Ziemba
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China Fears U.S. Debt Default as Much as Anyone
Emily Jin, a research assistant at the Center for a New American Security, told Newsweek: "The U.S. debt ceiling—and how close the U.S. is to breaching it—is a metric for U.S....
By Emily Jin
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The Renminbi’s New Role: Sanctions Busting
“CIPS was created to facilitate better, more efficient settlement of the renminbi. It is still far, far away from being an institution that has significant influence in the in...
By Emily Jin
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North Korea Cuts Phone Link With South, Slamming ‘Traitors’
The two Koreas, which are technically still at war, don’t have regular phone service. They set up hotlines in 2018 after a series of summits aimed at decreasing tensions on th...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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DeFi Needs to Comply With Anti-Money Laundering Rules, US Treasury Says
Alex Zerden, a former Treasury official who advises cryptocurrency firms on their illicit-finance risks, said that while the broader regulation of digital assets remains a div...
By Alex Zerden
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Saudi Arabia’s digital dream: Silicon Valley for the Middle East
Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, says: “Saudi Arabia has a lot of ambitions. But as we’ve seen around the world...
By Rachel Ziemba
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The Sanctions Sieve
“If you’re using a tool, and you’re still seeing the problematic behavior, you do have to consider using a harsher tool,” says Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow at CNAS and for...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Could Sanction Chinese Firms if Beijing Sends Arms to Russia
The United States would likely respond to a stepped-up Chinese military aid effort by punishing the specific Chinese companies and financial institutions involved, as it did e...
By Edward Fishman
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TikTok is in serious danger after a brutal Congressional hearing
The proposal with the most momentum — and backing from the White House — is a bill from Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va. and John Thune, R-S.D. that would create a new framework for e...
By Emily Kilcrease
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With Few Good Tools, Biden Needs New Law to Ban TikTok, experts say
Courts blocked a prior bid by the Trump administration to ban the app in part on the grounds that such a move violated free speech protections. That means any move to block th...
By Emily Kilcrease
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'No Other Option': Russia's Unequal Economic Marriage with China
Since Western countries imposed sanctions on Moscow, bilateral trade between the two neighbours has reached a record $190 billion and the proportion of Russian foreign trade c...
By Elina Ribakova
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China Watches U.S. Banking Crisis
"A lot of people on both the U.S. and the Chinese side are pontificating about global financial contagion, or that Chinese startups are going to suffer and won't be able to ge...
By Emily Jin
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Is This TikTok’s Huawei Moment?
“There’s a couple of factors that are probably playing into this shift that we’re seeing outside of the United States,” said Emily Kilcrease, senior fellow and director of the...
By Emily Kilcrease