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China Controls Trade Choke Points Beyond Rare Earths. It’s Squeezing Them.
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Having used its dominance over rare earths to blunt Trump’s tariff campaign and pursue other geopolitical goals, such as punish Japan for its position on Taiwan, Beijing now h...
By Liza Tobin
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‘Xi Has Stuck His Foot in the Door’: Ex-White House Official Liza Tobin’s Warning on Beijing Tactics
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Liza Tobin, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security who was China director of the US National Security Council during both the U.S. President’s firs...
By Liza Tobin
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How the Trump-Xi Meeting Became ‘The Shrinking Summit’
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“I’m expecting more optics than substance out of the summit,” said Tobin, who’s now a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “I think some of it will be real and mo...
By Liza Tobin
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TikTok Still a U.S. Security Risk, Defamation Suits & Free Speech and Other Commentary
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“Almost everybody in the U.S. government agrees that TikTok represents a serious national security risk” . . . except President Trump, gripes National Review’s Jim Geraghty. T...
By Liza Tobin
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Wi-Fi Giant’s Vietnam Factory Raises Questions over China Split
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China-founded Wi-Fi behemoth TP-Link Systems Inc. is trying to convince US national security officials it’s independent from Beijing. The circumstances surrounding its Vietnam...
By Liza Tobin
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Trump Wanted a Trade Deal. Xi Opened a New Front Instead.
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Beijing shattered a fragile trade truce with Washington this week, announcing sweeping restrictions on exports that contain even trace amounts of Chinese rare earth....
By Liza Tobin
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Trump’s Chip Deal Sets New Pay-to-Play Precedent for U.S. ExportersPresident Donald Trump’s agreement with two leading American producers of computer chips to take a cut of their revenue in exchange for permission to export products to China ...
By Liza Tobin
