On Saturday, China and Russia joined other members of the U.N. Security Council in approving
punishing new
economic sanctions, including a ban on exports that supply up to a third of North Korea's annual $ 3 billion in earnings.
Word that President Donald Trump's son - in - law, Jared Kushner, met with the head of a Russian bank makes now a good time to look at the U.S.
economic sanctions meant to
punish the Kremlin for its invasion of the Ukraine, and why Moscow would go to great lengths to get them lifted.