Janet Yellen

January 3, 2025 | Jack Burnham |

Chinese-Linked Hackers Accused of Infiltrating U.S. Treasury Department

China is accelerating its efforts to compromise U.S. government systems through cyberattacks. In a letter to Congress on December 30, the Treasury Department revealed that hackers linked to Beijing had...

November 27, 2024 | Jack Burnham |

House Select Committee Shines Light on Hong Kong’s Role in Sanctions Evasion

U.S. legislators are increasingly concerned that Hong Kong is becoming a key hub for bypassing sanctions against Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and other authoritarian regimes. Accordingly, the House...

October 8, 2024 | |

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Additional Hamas Financiers on First Anniversary of October 7 Massacre

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September 6, 2024 | |

ICC Prosecutor Defends Seeking Arrest Warrants for Israeli Leaders

The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan defended his decision to file a request for the court to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders alongside leaders...

June 21, 2024 | |

UN Rapporteurs Call for Arms Embargo on Israel

Several United Nations (UN)-appointed special rapporteurs issued a statement on June 20 calling on weapons manufacturers to immediately halt arms transfers to Israel. The group —...

June 5, 2024 | |

U.S. House of Representatives Votes for Sanctions Against International Criminal Court

The U.S. House of Representatives voted by a comfortable majority on June 4 to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) following its prosecutor’s decision to...

May 2, 2024 | Craig Singleton, Amaya Marion

Safeguarding U.S. Interests in the Face of China’s ‘New Productive Forces’ Strategy

Amidst China’s economic downturn, Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently announced new industrial policies aimed at cementing China’s dominance in several emerging technology sectors, such as batteries,...

April 24, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski, David Rader

Economic Security is National Security

The United States needs an Economic Security Coordination Office to compete economically with China.

September 15, 2023 | Akhil Ramesh, Cleo Paskal

From Non-Alignment to Realignment

The US and India expanded cooperation across various domains in the second reporting period of 2023. The two moved to materialize projects and initiatives that were conceived in the first quarter,...

August 5, 2023 | Elaine K. Dezenski, John Austin

What Washington Must Do to Check China’s Coercion

The Western offer to the Global South need not premise itself on rejecting China but instead on the rules of the liberal, open capitalist system through which China and the United States have all thrived.

April 1, 2023 | Natalie Ecanow |

With Eyes on Israel, Biden Ignores Judicial Crisis in Neighboring Lebanon

Washington has a vested interest in justice for the American victims of the blast and in spurring an overhaul of Lebanon’s broken political system.

March 27, 2023 | |

Lawmakers, Former Top Officials Offer Bipartisan Rebuke of Biden’s Syria Policy

Earlier today, an open letter to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the administration’s passive response to Arab governments’ accelerating normalization...

March 20, 2023 | Varsha Koduvayur, Thomas Plant

Biden’s Opportunity to Stop Violent Extremists From Exploiting Cryptocurrency

The Biden administration intends to crack down on crypto abuse by following a roadmap for regulation it unveiled in January. Calls for reform intensified after the crypto market’s tumultuous end to 2022,...

May 20, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero |

So Much for Reforming the World Health Organization

The Biden administration vowed it would change the body from within, but its proposals play into the hands of China.

April 20, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Trevor Logan

North Korean Hackers Stole $620 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency, FBI Finds

The FBI attributed a $620 million cryptocurrency theft to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus last week, while the Treasury Department sanctioned the digital wallet in which Lazarus had stashed the stolen...

November 16, 2021 | Matthew Zweig, Anthony Ruggiero

Will the Biden Administration Be Soft on Sanctions?

A policy review from the Treasury department suggests that it may limit sanctions without considering the downsides.