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Could Chinese Cars Still Enter the United States?
As the sun sets on the Biden administration, it is preparing one last maneuver that could prevent Chinese cars from driving on American roads for years to come. The Departmen...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Biden Tees Up Trump With a Final China Chip Battle
With one foot out of the Oval Office, U.S. President Joe Biden fired a parting shot at China’s semiconductor industry—setting the stage for fresh trade tensions over the power...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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China Is Studying Russia’s Sanctions Evasion to Prepare for Taiwan Conflict
China has been supporting Russia’s economy since the start of the Ukraine war by buying its oil while supplying it with everything from microelectronics to washing machines. M...
By Edward Fishman
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‘Blood Will Emerge from My Ear’: Experts Pounce on Trump’s New ‘Weaponization’ Threat
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
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. Treasury Targets Russia’s Gazprombank with New Sanctions
The United States imposed new sanctions on Russia's Gazprombank on Thursday, the Treasury Department said, as President Joe Biden steps up actions to punish Moscow for its inv...
By Edward Fishman
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A U.S. Ban on Investing in Chinese AI Startups Could Escalate Under Trump
Late last month, the US Treasury Department finalized new restrictions limiting what kinds of Chinese tech startups US venture capital firms can invest in for national securit...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Set to Deepen Tech Cold War with China
Donald Trump launched a technological war against China in his first presidency. His next administration faces a much harder task: finishing it. ... On export controls — a typ...
By Thomas Krueger
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Loyalty Is Common Thread as Trump Fills Foreign Policy, Immigration Jobs
President-elect Donald Trump is stocking his cabinet and White House staff with loyalists with deep congressional experience who back his agenda on immigration and foreign pol...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden Administration Rushes to Finalize CHIPS Act Funding
As Bloomberg reported, the White House is rushing to wrap up deals with chipmakers like Intel, Samsung and Micron Technology. But Geoffrey Gertz, a senior fellow in the energy...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Export Controls Failed to Keep Cutting-Edge AI Chips from China’s Huawei
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn’t look right. Figuring out...
By Emily Kilcrease
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China Backs Russia-Proposed BRICS Payment System
Gathered Wednesday at a summit in the Russian city of Kazan, the members of BRICS adopted a joint declaration calling for the creation of an independent payment system based o...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Expands Sanctions on Iran Oil Sector Over Israel Attack
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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Shifting Goals Cloud Utility of Sanctions on Russia
The meeting, organized by Tufts professors Christopher Miller and Daniel Drezner, did not come up with a decisive answer to the key question: are the sanctions working — and t...
By Edward Fishman
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U.S. Debates Who Should Be Able to Buy American AI Chips
It’s been two years since the Biden administration reshaped the global semiconductor market by barring China from buying the best US chips. Then, 12 months later, officials ex...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Ready or Not: Are American Multinationals Prepared for the Taiwan Contingency?
Threading that needle might not be so simple if a major crisis is brewing in the strait. Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Security Pr...
By Emily Kilcrease
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The Withdrawal That Wasn't
Much of what the American forces are doing in Iraq is to support operations in Syria, which also will not see much of a change. There are roughly 900 U.S. troops in Syria, whe...
By Jonathan Lord
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Chinese EV Tech Ban Not an Overreaction: National Security Experts
Adam Tong, an associate fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said it’s better for the U.S. to get ahead of the threat rather than trying to fix it on the back end...
By Adam Tong
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Biden’s High-Wire Balancing Act on Chinese Tech
A new rule would effectively ban Chinese cars from the United States. Some experts worry about the costs of the sweeping approach....
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Biden Administration Proposes Ban on Chinese Software in Vehicles
Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security who is an author of the recently published book “Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Ri...
By Richard Fontaine