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The problem has always been that Europe trades with Russia a lot, while the US only trades a little.

On February 24, 2022, President Biden announced a new tranche of sweeping sanctions against Russia in response to its invasion into Ukraine with both the Treasury Department and the Commerce Department taking action to implement these measures.

America and its allies are crafting rules to try to prevent it | International

China Tackles Chip Shortage Problem Via Marxist Approach Tsinghua University sets up new school in response to chip shortage crisis China’s industrial sector is suffering from a severe shortage of semiconductor chips, following U.S. sanctions and other supply problems, which is seriously slowing down the country’s manufacturing capacity. Recently, Tsinghua University announced the establishment of a new school that would help solve the country’s chip shortage problem, as Chinese leaders p...

Richard D. Fisher, Jr. On Taiwan: Building a global response to CCP aggression Where is the world’s disposition today vis-a-vis the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? Is it similar to that in Munich, September 1938 when Europe’s powers appeased Adolf Hitler over the “Sudetenland,” despite existing treaty commitments? In other words, analogous to the failure to recognize the PRC’s aggressive intent and to mobilize in response to serial CCP outrages, e.g., Tiananmen and South China Sea; sup...

15 march 2021 Yesterday The opinion that the USSR was actively involved in the smuggling of industrial diamonds after World War II is quite widespread in the literature of the subject. For example, “Industrial diamonds were spirited from Zaire and Sierra-Leone to Beirut, thence by diplomatic pouch to Moscow” 1. Or there were reports that old traders in Beirut - where many illicit dealers in Africa shipped rough diamonds to - recalled that there were often industrial diamonds in the diplom...

Think twice before bringing back the COCOM export control regime Scott Jones 15 hours ago The container ship Maersk Emerald is unloaded at the Port of Oakland, Calif., on July 12, 2018. (Ben Margot/AP) This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, the goal of which is to counter China’s expanding global influence. In particular, the draft measure mandates diplomatic and strategic initiatives to offset China’s technological developm...

Increasing repression in Hong Kong will make it easier for President Biden to recruit wavering Western democracies to challenge China.

The Year of the Ox has begun darkly for Hong Kongers. On Feb. 16, nine pro-democracy advocates, including 82-year-old Martin Lee (李柱銘), the revered long-time leader of the territory’s Democratic Party, went on trial charged with illegal assembly. A week later, the Hong Kong government announced that it would enact a law allowing only “patriots” to serve on district councils, the lowest level of the territory’s administrative apparatus, with responsibilities ranging from sanitation ...