Beijing’s decision to keep doing business with Moscow after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, along with the nature of Western sanctions, has saved the Kremlin from economic and political disaster. China has not only opened…
As delivered by Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. Katherine Brucker
to the Permanent Council, Vienna
May 16, 2024
The United States is deeply concerned about Russia’s recent destabilizing activities in the OSCE region, including those resulting in…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, President Joseph R. Biden signed into law H.R.1042, the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act. The passage and signing of this law will ensure the U.S. will no longer be reliant on imported uranium fuel from the…
Here are key takeaways of how Americans see Russia and its president:
No one has done more to undermine Russia’s territorial integrity — indeed, its viability as a state— than the man who clearly intends to rule it until the end of his natural life.
It is bad enough that Vladimir Putin, who swore…
Azerbaijan has managed to achieve something thought to be impossible in the post-Soviet space: the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers ahead of time, and seemingly without angering Moscow. In fact, even as peacekeepers were leaving the…
Instead, Chinese exporters are openly engaging in trade with Russia, even in areas subject to export controls, while few other countries have been willing to report trade data in circumvention of the Western restrictions. That said, third party…
Baqaee, D, J Hinz, B Moll, M Schularick, F Teti, J Wanner and S Yang (2024), ‘What if? The effects of a hard decoupling from China on the German economy‘, in Pisani-Ferry, J, B Weder di Mauro and J Zettelmeyer…
Over the past year, TikTok has emerged as a bipartisan target in the United States, with politicians on both sides of the political spectrum raising concerns about Chinese ownership of—and potential…
