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Mnuchin tried to force a sale of TikTok. Now he’s a possible bidder.
Emily Kilcrease, a former CFIUS coordinator at the Commerce Department, said she could not comment on the TikTok probe. But Kilcrease, who now serves as director of the energy...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Joe Biden declares opposition to Nippon Steel’s takeover of U.S. Steel
“Based on past practice, it is likely that Cfius would have been on track to clear the deal, likely with some conditions related to protection of domestic steel production and...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Emily Kilcrease on Gaming China’s Sanctions Response
The researcher talks about why it would be much trickier to place sanctions on China in any future conflict than on Russia and where the U.S. might have the most leverage. Rea...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.S. Lawmakers Tune Out TikTok Lobbying to Advance Bill to Ban App
A big question is whether the Senate will back the legislation as previous bills have stumbled. Emily Kilcrease, a technology and trade expert at the Center for a New American...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Plans to Expand U.S. Chip Manufacturing Are Running Into Obstacles
The delays come as the Biden administration begins dispensing the first major awards from a $39 billion pot of money aimed at building up the U.S. semiconductor industry and r...
By Emily Kilcrease
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VCs Face Fresh Scrutiny Over China Investments as Geopolitical Pressures Build
Now, slowing China’s long-running, multi-billion-dollar effort to catch up with the US in chip technology has become a lynchpin of America’s China policy. AI, where the US als...
By Emily Kilcrease
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US House China panel calls Intel, Nvidia and Micron heads to testify
The commitee this week sent letters to Intel, Nvidia and Micron summoning their chief executives to testify, according to everal people familiar with the situation. The move i...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Japanese Company’s Bid for U.S. Steel Tests Biden’s Industrial Policy
Independent experts say it would be well within historical norms for the committee to evaluate the sale. That will likely include a detailed economic analysis of whether the d...
By Emily Kilcrease
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China chip firm powered by US tech and money avoids Biden's crackdown
Chinese tech companies with links to the Chinese military often get added to the entity list, but Brite has never faced such restrictions, public records show. "It sure seems ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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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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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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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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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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Explainer: Biden combines billions in chipmaking grants with China curbs to keep US ahead
As the United States has slashed the amount of top technology headed to China, it has also been using the promise of billions of dollars of funding to entice non-Chinese chipm...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Out of Bounds: Pushback to President Biden's executive order on outbound investment has been swift from all sides.
“The U.S. is relying on diplomatic efforts to get allies and partners to stand up similar mechanisms on outbound investment and not backfill for U.S. investors and tech compan...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Gifts, Gadgets and Greece: Inside a Huawei Lobbying Campaign
“Huawei views the U.S. actions as an existential threat,” said Emily Kilcrease, a former deputy assistant U.S. trade representative who studies the U.S.-Chinese economic relat...
By Emily Kilcrease
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New US Rule on China Investments Creates ‘Agony’ of Ambiguity
Requests for input range from the open-ended to the specific, and ask for help identifying unintended consequences of the proposed rules at least five times, underscoring how ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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CNAS Responds: Outbound Investment Executive Order
Today, the White House this week released an executive order (EO) detailing a ban on U.S. private-equity and venture-capital investments in some Chinese technology companies w...
By Emily Kilcrease, J Travis Mosier, Thomas Krueger, John Hughes, Jacob Stokes, Tim Fist, Hannah Kelley & Sam Howell
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White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors
Emily Kilcrease, a technology expert at the CNAS think-tank, said it was a “good first step to de-risking” from China but would “leave many camps unhappy”. She said some would...
By Emily Kilcrease