Airbus SE
COMAC Comes to Europe: strategic implications of the commercial aerospace battleground
China’s COMAC is out of the gates hot in the new year. The state-owned commercial aerospace champion is officially working to receive European certification for its C919 aircraft. COMAC’s...
Op-eds
Commanding Heights: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in the Critical and Emerging Technologies of the 21st Century
Congressional Testimonies
China’s Global Influence and Interference Activities
Congressional Testimonies
Germany’s Bet on China Is a Crisis in the Making
If companies and their jobs leave for China, it will be hard for Germans to ignore the economic and social implications of significant job flight.
Op-eds
Germany’s Faustian entanglement with China
Back in November, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Xi Jinping. His visit to China was the first by a G7 leader in three years. Facing heated domestic...
Op-eds
Iran’s terror drone pipeline to Moscow
On October 17, Kyiv residents woke up to loud explosions. Russia had just launched a wave of drone attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine, which it carried out with Iranian-made Shahed-136 “suicide...
Op-eds
It’s time for a US-EU industrial strategy on China – even if it costs industry.
If the US and Europe are going to be on the same page when challenging China’s geopolitical goals, they must ensure that their industrial bases are, too.
Op-eds
Russia sanctions grow faster, larger than South Africa sanctions in 1980s
When I lived in Moscow, I worked for Bloomberg, banked at Citibank, used my Visa card at Ikea, lunched at McDonald’s and flew home on Aeroflot to New York. As of this week, all that is over. As more than...
Op-eds
Should Europeans invest in Iran? No! Even after 2025
After years of international isolation, economic instability, and sanctions, European companies may be tempted to resume business with Iran if Washington and Tehran revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Before...
Op-eds
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late June
Policy Tracker
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late May
Policy Tracker
Why won’t Trudeau demand more from Iran?
The Islamic Republic in Iran is about to execute three young Iranian men for their participation in the November 2019 popular uprising against the regime. But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is no...
Op-eds
Hezbollah on Trial in Europe
Fifteen Hezbollah-linked defendants accused of laundering millions of euros in South American drug money to Europe and Lebanon...
Policy Briefs
New Treasury Sanctions Target Iran Air
In its largest ever single-day action against Iran, the U.S. Treasury designated...
Policy Briefs
Europe’s Leading Companies Are Bowing to U.S. Sanctions
Corporate Europe is bowing to the pressure of Washington’s unilateral sanctions on Iran. The continent’s leading multinational firms, such as Airbus, Maersk, Peugeot, Total, and Sieme...
Op-eds
Foreign Investment in Iran
Multinational Firms’ Compliance with U.S. Sanctions
Memos
Major Global Companies are Leaving Iran to Avoid U.S. Sanctions: FDD Study
(Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 2018) – Major international corporations are leaving Iran rather than face the risk of unilateral U.S. sanctions, despite the efforts of European governments to neutrali...
Press Releases
Trump Should Block Iran’s Air Corridor to Syria
Last month, an Iranian drone reportedly violated Israeli airspace after taking off from a base i...
Op-eds
Deceptive Deja Vu
In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...