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The Renminbi’s New Role: Sanctions Busting
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“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’
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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?
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“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
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North Korea launches 2 cruise missiles from submarine ahead of US-South Korea military drills
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North Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South Korean military...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Senate Bill Paves Way for US TikTok Ban
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Emily Kilcrease, a technology and security expert at the CNAS think-tank, called the bill "a very serious effort to provide a real regulatory and legal framework for addressin...
By Emily Kilcrease
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What can Russian sanctions achieve?
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"You can try to sanction Putin and his oligarch cronies, but there's no way that you're going to bankrupt them," Eddie Fishman says. ... "Historically, sanctions have a mixed ...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Treasury’s Updated Sanctions Strategy Against Russia
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Last Tuesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo laid out the Biden Administration’s updated strategy for using sancti...
By Alex Zerden
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Global Financial Watchdog Suspends Russia’s Membership
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“The measure is both an important political statement as well as a recognition of the threats to the global financial system posed by Russia. The FATF identified Russia’s invo...
By Alex Zerden
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Putin’s Wartime Bluster Obscures Russia’s Precarious Future
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Sanctions imposed by Group of Seven (G-7) countries — the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom — and the European Union are aimed at strangling P...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Sanctions on Russian Bank Raise Questions About ‘sanctions-proofing’ in Gulf
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Rachel Ziemba, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security, told Middle East Eye the bank was “ahead of the curve" in establishing itself in the UAE, to take ...
By Alex Zerden & Rachel Ziemba
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Frozen Afghan Funds Have Done Little to Sway Taliban
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The U.S. has stepped up use of economic sanctions and asset seizures in the past two years as a foreign-policy mechanism against Afghanistan as well as Russia. In the case of ...
By Alex Zerden
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How Russia Is Surviving the Tightening Grip on Its Oil Revenue
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The gradual ratcheting up of oil sanctions, which are designed to cut Russia’s oil export revenues without snuffing out a fragile global pandemic recovery, is a policy that an...
By Edward Fishman
