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New CNAS Report: “No Winners in This Game: Assessing the U.S. Playbook for Sanctioning China”
Washington, December 1, 2023 – Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, No Winners in This Game: Assessing the U.S. Playbook for Sanctioning...
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Is cryptocurrency enabling Hamas? Efforts to halt terror funding revive.
“It’s a space of finite resources and constantly changing prioritization,” says Alex Zerden, a terror-financing expert formerly at the U.S. Treasury and now head of his own ri...
By Alex Zerden
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Turkey’s exports of military-linked goods to Russia soar
The trade flourishes by exploiting regulatory gaps between US export controls and EU enforcement, according to Emily Kilcrease, director of the Energy, Economics and Security ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Mideast Wealth Funds Draw Greater US Scrutiny Over China Ties
Last month, the US House Select Committee on China sought information about Sequoia Capital’s investments into artificial intelligence, semiconductor and quantum computing com...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Binance Penalties Include a Number of Crypto Industry Firsts
The CFTC also imposed charges and fines against Binance’s former chief compliance officer, Samuel Lim, an action a CFTC commissioner said should serve as a message to the cryp...
By Alex Zerden
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New Binance CEO Teng’s First Job Is to Avert Customer Exodus
Binance exploded onto the crypto scene in 2017 and saw its market share surge to more than 60% worldwide after the fall of FTX in November 2022. Since then, its combined marke...
By Alex Zerden
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US plans to counter China’s influence in the Pacific suffers setback
Speaking on the sidelines of the summit in San Francisco this week, Farrell had a slightly different view telling this masthead that he was “disappointed that we are not going...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Korea, US, Japan show off strength of trilateral ties at APEC
They shared the belief that military security can be enhanced through advanced technologies, so technological partners should have a "100 percent agreement" on each other's mi...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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US Treasury sanctions companies, tankers for violating G7-led price cap on Russian crude
The new sanctions are a part of the shift that the US took towards enforcement of the price cap in October, and they may lead G7 companies to become more reluctant to trade wi...
By Rachel Ziemba
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US and China work to stabilise relationship, but Biden still says Xi is a dictator
And in terms of China, many are uncertain about what today’s meeting will achieve. “Beijing’s actions over the coming weeks and months will ultimately prove the value of this ...
By Jacob Stokes
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CNAS Responds: APEC Summit
Today, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit commenced in San Francisco, California, kicking off with a four-hour meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Ge...
By Emily Kilcrease & Jacob Stokes
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping to meet in effort to stabilize relations
Over the past few months, several US cabinet secretaries have visited Beijing, partly in recognition that Washington needed to boost high-level engagement to reduce miscommuni...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Hot air over Koreas — fresh balloon flights into North spark tension
The North’s threatening rhetoric in the face of the moves has largely been shrugged off in Seoul. No unusual military movements have been detected in the North, and South Kore...
By Dr. Go Myong-Hyun
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Is Crypto Financing Terrorism?
Alex Zerden, founder of the risk advisory firm Capitol Peak Strategies and a former official at the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, told DealBook th...
By Alex Zerden
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Biden Turns a Few More Screws on China’s Chip Industry
“I don’t think that they shift the landscape as significantly” as last year’s, said Emily Kilcrease, director of the energy, economics, and security program at the Center for ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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How the West—and Israel Itself—Inadvertently Funded Hamas
The flow of money illustrates the conundrum Israel and the West have faced since 2007, when Hamas wrested control of the strip from its rival, the internationally recognized P...
By Alex Zerden
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U.S. Targets Crypto Mixers Over Money Laundering Risks
FinCEN’s proposal could have a chilling effect by further associating certain crypto activities with terrorist financing and money laundering, according to Alex Zerden, a form...
By Alex Zerden
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US Hits Hamas Financiers With Sanctions in Response to Israel Attack
“The practical effect of this is that it makes it almost impossible for these individuals and entities to interact with the U.S. financial system, and by virtue of that, with ...
By Alex Zerden
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China's Belt and Road: Will Xi's Economic Centerpiece Last Another Decade?
Lower-income BRI partnered countries' struggles to make payments, as well as Beijing's aggressive deleveraging efforts in the wake of China's ongoing property crisis. have mad...
By Emily Jin
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US throws Nvidia a lifeline while choking off China's chipmaking future
The rules were designed to curtail China's ability to exploit American chips to build massive supercomputers that can be used to create technologies similar to OpenAI's ChatGP...
By Thomas Krueger