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August 22 , 2017
  • CNN：US targets Chinese, Russian entities funding North Korea's nukes
    CNN reports: "The US Treasury Department announced new sanctions Tuesday targeting Chinese and Russian entities that help fund and facilitate North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Coupled with the United Nations Security Council resolution passed earlier this month, Tuesday's sanctions are intended to further isolate the companies and individuals outside of North Korea that are providing key support to Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions... Chinese and Russian entities -- including energy companies, coal and oil traders, labor exporters and facilitators of sanctions evasion -- were listed as the primary targets of Tuesday's sanctions... A Chinese government official said last month that China-North Korea trade was worth $2.6 billion in the first half of 2017, up about 10% over the same period last year."
  • Vox：Trump's new attack on the Chinese economy, explained
    Vox reports: "President Donald Trump is pursuing an unconventional and controversial strategy for pressuring China to open up its doors wider to American business. It's a sign that the Trump administration is still willing to risk a trade war with China despite its ouster of strategist Steve Bannon, the most prominent economic nationalist in the administration. The move involves launching an investigation into whether China is violating international trade law by systematically stealing intellectual property... If the new investigation, which could take up to a year, results in economic punishments against China, it will cause uproar in the global trade arena... The Section 301 gambit is a risky one for two main reasons. First, the US effectively agreed to stop using it once the global community agreed to form the World Trade Organization in 1995. If the US does actually take actions against China under the provision, it would undermine the global trade system... Second, the new investigation isn't designed to protect American workers, like most of Trump's trade actions. Instead, its primary function is to make it easier for American corporations to expand their operations abroad — a process which often means they fire US workers and hire cheaper foreign ones."
  • The Washington Post：Three countries undermining Afghanistan progress that President Trump didn't call out
    The Washington Post comments: "President Trump delivered a sharp warning to Pakistan on Monday, saying he intends to hold its leaders to account for harboring militant groups responsible for perpetuating instability across the border in Afghanistan... He declined, however, to similarly admonish three other regional powers whom the United States views as complicit in undermining progress there: Russia, Iran and to a lesser extent China... Trump has been candid in his criticism of China for not doing more to help counter the provocative actions being taken by North Korea, whose leaders have threatened a nuclear attack against the United States. But his administration has said little about Beijing's comparatively minor contributions in Afghanistan. China, as one observer notes, has 'chosen to assume a minimalistic role in the security sector, refusing to get involved in direct military operations' but benefiting nonetheless from the U.S. and NATO presence there. As Military Times' Shawn Snow reported in March, Beijing is seen as something of a 'freeloader' in Afghanistan... China was one of four countries, including Russia, Iran and Pakistan, that sent envoys to an Afghan summit in the spring — talks the United States refused to attend. But overall, its objectives appear less nefarious than the others."
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