Now is the perfect time to tighten the financial thumbscrews on Iran. The clerical regime has been significantly weakened by the unprecedented Israeli and U.S. military attacks on the Islamic Republic...
Sanctions Target IRGC Funding: The Treasury Department issued its second round of sanctions targeting Iran’s “shadow banking” network. The network is used by the Islamic Revolutionary...
A company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to control what comes out of the faucets of millions of Londoners. CK Infrastructure Holdings (CKI), a subsidiary of firm CK Hutchison,...
Iran’s nuclear weapons strategy lies in tatters in the wake of this week’s extensive, and ongoing, targeted Israeli strikes. Ever since the Islamic Regime’s clandestine program to obtain...
Iran Orders Missile Fuel Ingredient: Iran has ordered thousands of tons of a key ingredient in ballistic missile fuel from China as it seeks to rebuild its missile arsenal and those...
Rising tensions between the United States and China can no longer be siloed from campus. On May 28, the State Department announced its intention to “work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively...
Latest Developments Treasury Officials Meet Bank Representatives: Officials from the U.S. Treasury Department met with representatives of Hong Kong’s banking sector in early April to warn them against...
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The Trump administration is intensifying its efforts to resolve America’s fentanyl crisis. On April 9, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a financial trend analysis of data linked to suspicious...
Sanctions don’t impede negotiations; they help set the terms. The Treasury Department sanctioned the China-based Shandong Shengxing Chemical Co. oil refinery on April 16 for purchasing some $800 million...
Now is the time to rethink how America conducts information warfare and prioritize influence and psychological operations against authoritarian states.
China in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands
Beijing finds itself in the crosshairs as Washington tightens the vise on Tehran. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned six entities on February 26 for procuring components for unmanned aerial vehicles...
Evaluating The Last Four Years in the EAP Region and Unseized Opportunities Under President Trump
Despite fueling Moscow’s war machine, China has expressed its interest in playing peacemaker in Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal reported on February 13 that Chinese authorities had approached the Trump...
Frustrated by Beijing’s failure to curb fentanyl precursor production and transshipment, the Trump administration issued a sweeping executive order outlining China’s role in facilitating synthetic...
Prohibiting Foreign Interference