Tag: Sanctions

Beltway Confidential

Brent Scowcroft’s foreign policy theories never passed the reality test

Michael Rubin · August 8, 2020 7:17 pm

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019.

US sanctions Chinese Communist Party leaders in Hong Kong over ‘policies of suppression’

Jerry Dunleavy · August 7, 2020 5:10 pm

Iran point man Brian Hook leaving State Department

Joel Gehrke · August 6, 2020 6:08 pm

In this file photo taken on Tuesday, June 30, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko greet WWII veterans during an opening ceremony of the monument in honour of the World War II Red Army, in the village of Khoroshevo, just outside Rzhev, about 200 kilometers (about 125 miles) northwest of Moscow, Russia. President Alexander Lukashenko is seeking a sixth term in the Aug. 9 election but he has accused Russian forces of interfering with the upcoming vote, although Moscow has denied any involvement.

Beltway Confidential

Upcoming elections in Belarus are a challenge to Russia’s imperial ambitions

Janusz Bugajski · August 6, 2020 5:24 pm

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers his sermon in the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020.

Ali Khamenei says Iran will not negotiate with ‘old man’ Trump

Zach Halaschak · August 1, 2020 8:42 pm

National Security

US sanctions teenage son of Syrian President Bashar Assad

Zach Halaschak · July 29, 2020 9:59 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin heads the Human Rights Council in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Kirill Kydryavtsev, Pool)

Senate investigation finds Putin-linked Russian oligarchs used US art industry to dodge sanctions

Jerry Dunleavy · July 29, 2020 3:40 pm

Venezuela's Supreme Court President Maikel Moreno, during a meeting with the press at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, April 1, 2017. Venezuela's president and Supreme Court backed down Saturday from an audacious move to strip congress of its legislative powers that had sparked widespread charges that the South American country was no longer a democracy.

US offers $5M reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuela chief justice

Zach Halaschak · July 22, 2020 12:04 am

US sanctions on Chinese companies using Uighur labor mark deteriorating relations

Nicholas Rowan · July 21, 2020 2:42 pm

Chechnya's regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov speaks in front of a portrait of his father Akhmad Kadyrov, the Chechen president who was assassinated in a 2004 bomb blast, during a meeting in Grozny, Russia, Friday, May 10, 2019.

US sanctions Chechnya ruler Ramzan Kadyrov for ‘gross violations of human rights’

Zach Halaschak · July 20, 2020 10:29 pm

Senate approves sanctions against Chinese officials over Hong Kong law

Haley Victory Smith · July 2, 2020 11:29 pm

Kimberly Reed, President Donald Trump's nominee to be president of Export-Import Bank of the United States, testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her confirmation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 19, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

You can’t beat China by subsidizing China

Timothy P. Carney · July 1, 2020 8:45 pm