Critical Mass: Financial Times Affirms Rise of Capital Markets as Foreign Policy Leverage
(Washington, D.C.): One of the most prestigious financial newspapers in the world reported today that, with passage last week by...
Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Time to Raise the General Knowledge Level’ on China
(Washington, D.C.): Hong Kong's still-independent press is having a field day with an unusual PDA (public display of aggressiveness) by...
Sinopec Case Again Points to Beijing’s Deception in U.S. Equity Market; Far Eastern Economic Review Scorches S.E.C and Wall Street
(Washington, D.C.): An extraordinary article by Murray Heibert appeared yesterday in the prestigious Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) under the...
Sinopec Comes to Market as China Taps Unsuspecting U.S. Investors for Funds to Support Nefarious Activities
(Washington, D.C.): The listing and trading of a $3.4 billion Initial Public Offering by China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec)...
Senate’s Approval of P.N.T.R. Sets the Stage for China to Renew its Penetration of the U.S. Bond Market
(Washington, D.C.): According to a September 16 Reuters report, the government of China intends to reenter the U.S. bond market...
Breaking Faith
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, morphed from a man who presents his well-established pro-Israeli Labor Party...
Fed Chairman Greenspan Takes Aim at Use of Capital Markets Leverage to Protect U.S. Security Interests — and Misses
(Washington D.C.): In a clearly orchestrated gambit, Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) solicited testimony in a Senate Banking Committee hearing today...
Thompson-Torricelli: Security-Minded Legislation to Contend with 21st Century Threats
(Washington, D.C.): In a bit of Freudian repartee at the expense of Secretary of State Albright, President Clinton recently told...
Post-Mortem on the Summit: The Talbott Communique
Call it the Talbott Communique. To be sure, President Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued what was entitled their...
Foreign Policy in U.S. marketsFinancial Times, 24 May 2000
By Thomas Catn, Joshua Chaffin and Stephen Fidler
By Thomas Catn, Joshua Chaffin and Stephen Fidler
To enforce its will around the world, Washington has traditionally relied on the time-honoured trade embargo. But under a new...
With PNTR Approved, U.S. Capital Markets Take Center Stage Thompson Legislation Focuses on Proliferators’ Access
(Washington, D.C.): As the Clinton Administration celebrates its foreign policy victory over human rights-, religious freedom- and national security-minded opponents...
China’s Mythic MarketBy Alan Tonelson
The New York Times, 18 May 2000
The New York Times, 18 May 2000
Trade agreements cannot bring widespread benefits to the United States if they rest on false portrayals of our trade partners...
Enriching China Unlikely to Advance U.S. National Security
(Washington, D.C.): In recent days, President Bill Clinton and his National Security Advisor, Samuel Berger, have asserted that U.S. national...
Broad-Based Coalition Plays Pivotal Role in PetroChina’s I.P.O. — And Market’s Bleak View of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
(Washington, D.C.): In the wake of the dismal performance of PetroChina's initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock...
Semper Fi: Memorialize Lost Marines by Proceeding with — Not Slowing, Cutting or Canceling — the V-22 Program
(Washington, D.C.): This weekend's tragic loss of 19 Marines in a crash involving the V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor aircraft is bringing...
Diverse Congressional Group Appeals to President Clinton to Halt PetroChina I.P.O.
(Washington, D.C.): An important new front has been opened in the campaign to stop global "bad actors" from penetrating the...