The United States has already used up funds from another form of assistance for Ukraine, the congressionally-appropriated Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which enables the Department of Defense to purchase weapons for Kiev by signing contracts with arms manufacturers. In his statement, Blinken ...
The Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act of 2024, a revival of the controversial China Initiative (scrapped in 2022), which seeks to “curb spying by the CCP on US intellectual property and academic institutions” and “identify and prosecute individuals engaged in tra...
“Training is key to Ukraine’s continued success on the battlefield by ensuring that Ukraine has the skilled forces necessary to sustain its efforts to push back on Russian aggression. Since the U.S. started to provide security assistance to support Ukraine in defense of their nation,the Unite...
Following Russia’s renewedinvasion of Ukrainein February 2022, the U.S. and its allies have ramped up security assistance for the Ukrainian military through existing stockpiles and increased production. One of the most in-demand items is 155 mm artillery, which the U.S. and NATO al...
We immediately made sure our team in Ukraine were safe; we mobilized the Solvay Solidarity Fund to donate €1 million in relief aid; and we channeled our employees' own generosity and matched all individual donations with an equal contribution. As an organization, we unequivocally condemned the ...
indicating a continued firm stance on the issue. Harris has also voiced support for the US’s continued military assistance to Taiwan, while also calling for maintaining the status quo. In a 2022 speech, she stated that the US opposes “any unilateral change to the status quo” and that the...
Consider how the IMF and World Bank sprung into action during the two crises that have defined the global economy the past four years: COVID-19 and Russia’s criminal war on Ukraine. Without the urgent work of the IFIs in responding to the pandemic and preparing for future ones, I am ...
There have been major developments in the trade politics, trade, trade agreements, trade adjustment assistance, 337/IP, US/Chinese antitrust, and securities areas. This month the blog post has grown substantially because there have been so many developments in the trade and political area, especia...
The strategy "also accounts for increasing strategic competition in the Arctic, exacerbated by Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine and the People’s Republic of China’s increased efforts to garner influence in the region, and seeks to position the United States to both effectively ...
Carnell congressional testimony; Bentsen press briefing in Tokyo, Japan; assistance to victims of 3 Frame No. Mississippi River flooding; Joint Statement on the U.S.-Japan Framework for a New Economic Partnership; Bentsen remarks before U.S.-Japan Business Council; Stanley Tate nominated to be...