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Trump’s Heavy-Handed Approach to China Leaves Trade Partners with Stark Choice
The Trump administration’s concerns about China and economic security are not substantively different from those of the Biden administration, said Emily Kilcrease, director of...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Xi-Trump Atmospherics Welcomed but Mask Structural Rifts: Analysts
“There’s been so much miscommunication or differing perceptions from both sides coming out of these summits,” said Emily Kilcrease, senior fellow at the Centre for a New Ameri...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Missing From the Trump-Xi State Dinner: China’s Business Leaders
No prominent Chinese chief executives attended Thursday night’s state dinner at the White House. “It’s a rather depressing marker of how bad the relationship has gotten,” said...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Businesses ‘Frozen Out’ of Trump’s Tariff Channel with China
“There’s always a risk that this kind of thing devolves into endless chit-chat,” said Emily Kilcrease, a former deputy assistant U.S. trade representative during Trump’s first...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Rare Earths Force Trump to Be Less Hostile Before Xi Summit
"The US and the Trump administration are just fundamentally in a different position with China where they can't use that overly coercive, over-reaching approach, knowing that ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Pakistan Works to Broker U.S.-Iran Peace as Washington’s Economic Pressure Campaign Continues
Emily Kilcrease, senior director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, said removing Chinese banks from the U.S. dollar syst...
By Emily Kilcrease
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A Firm Linked to China’s Missile Program Won a $2M Deal to Test a Major U.S. Army Project
“It’s a huge red flag,” said Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and program director at the Center for a New American Security. “If you are a U.S. company that wants to be engag...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump’s Latest Tariff Threats Open New Front in Trade Negotiations
The Trump administration’s new tariff threat “is trying to build some leverage and tell Canada: ‘You can’t just wait this out,’” said Emily Kilcrease, director of the energy, ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Anthropic and Government Face off Again over AI. But They Need Each Other.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0618/ai-anthropic-mythos-government-regulation...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump-XI Summit: 5 Things to Watch as World’s Most Powerful Men Meet
Emily Kilcrease, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, said: "What I'm going to be looking for in the Board of Trade announcement, if it does come out, is r...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Mideast War Looms Over Trump-Xi Summit
Emily Kilcrease, director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Washington-based Center for a New American Security, said that China’s anti-sanction directives...
By Emily Kilcrease
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China Urges U.S. to Drop Trade Probe as Key Trump-XI Summit Approaches
“The U.S. tariffs have succeeded primarily in pushing the burden of China’s excess capacity to other markets,” said Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow at the Center for a New Am...
By Emily Kilcrease
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China Looms Large in USTR Hearing on Structural Excess Capacity
Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and a former USTR official, similarly con...
By Emily Kilcrease
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China Blocks U.S. Sanctions on Refiners Buying Iranian Crude
Emily Kilcrease, director of the Energy, Economics and Security Program at Washington-based Center for a New American Security, said that major Chinese institutions quietly co...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Wants U.S. Investment in Venezuela, but Sanctions Still Complicate It
President Trump is trying to kick-start private investment in Venezuela while maintaining considerable control over the country and the companies that are allowed to do busine...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Clamps Down on Investment in Chinese Tech Companies
President Trump signed into law new powers to screen and restrict U.S. investment in Chinese technology firms, marking the most significant effort yet to police how American c...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Donald Trump Stiffs Farmers and China Stiffs Donald Trump
Welcome to the antepenultimate Trade Secrets newsletter of 2025. It doesn’t look like we’re going to get the US Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s tariffs before...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Analysts, Advocates Sound off During Day One of USTR’s Hearing on USMCA
Trade researchers on Wednesday presented a largely positive assessment of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s performance to date – along with a host of targeted recommendation...
By Emily Kilcrease
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USMCA Partners Urged to Form Joint Economic Security Mechanism to Address China Challenge
Witnesses at a US trade agency hearing are pushing officials to put economic security high on the agenda to counter China ahead of a high-stakes review of the United States-Me...
By Emily Kilcrease
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How America Fell Behind in the Rare-Earth Race—and How It Hopes to Come Back
The United States has known for years that its economy runs on materials that it can’t control. The rare-earth metals that power F-35 fighter jets, electric vehicles, and iPho...
By Emily Kilcrease