不满涉以言论 以色列外长切断与欧盟最高外交官联系

2026年6月18日 18:10 / 联合早报

据欧洲动态新闻网（Euractiv）独家报道，卡拉斯在墨西哥举行的高级别闭门会谈中，将以色列对待加沙和约旦河西岸巴勒斯坦人的方式，与南非种族隔离政策相提并论。图为卡拉斯在欧洲议会就中东局势发表讲话。 （法新社）

以色列外交部长萨尔宣布，鉴于有报道称欧盟外交与安全政策高级代表卡拉斯将以色列与南非种族隔离政权相提并论，他将切断与卡拉斯的所有联系。

萨尔星期四（6月18日）在社媒平台X发文说：“最近有报道说，她（卡拉斯）在访问墨西哥期间，将以色列比作南非曾经存在的种族隔离政权……迄今为止，她对此事未作任何否认、回应或评论。”

他进而写道：“因此，作为以色列外交部长，我别无选择，只能切断与卡拉斯女士的一切联系，直到她收回对世界上唯一犹太国家——也是中东唯一民主国家——的血祭诽谤（blood libel）。”

“血祭诽谤”指的是一则反犹谣言，声称犹太人会谋杀基督教徒的孩子，用这些小孩的血来进行宗教仪式。

萨尔还在贴文中说：“欧盟长期以来一直对以色列国采取偏执且可耻的欺骗行为。”

据欧洲动态新闻网（Euractiv）上周独家报道，卡拉斯在墨西哥举行的高级别闭门会谈中，将以色列对待加沙和约旦河西岸巴勒斯坦人的方式，与南非种族隔离政策相提并论。

包括列席官员和外交官在内的多名人士告诉欧洲动态新闻网，卡拉斯描述了去年访南非和在约翰内斯堡参观种族隔离博物馆的经历，称自己深受触动。

她承认以色列拥有自卫权，但同时表明，以色列对哈马斯2023年10月7日跨境袭击的回应，与南非所指控的种族灭绝行为相称，并称以色列在约旦河西岸的定居点破坏以巴两国方案的可能。

据欧洲动态新闻网（Euractiv）独家报道，卡拉斯在墨西哥举行的高级别闭门会谈中，将以色列对待加沙和约旦河西岸巴勒斯坦人的方式，与南非种族隔离政策相提并论。图为卡拉斯在欧洲议会就中东局势发表讲话。 （法新社）

以色列外交部长萨尔宣布，鉴于有报道称欧盟外交与安全政策高级代表卡拉斯将以色列与南非种族隔离政权相提并论，他将切断与卡拉斯的所有联系。

萨尔星期四（6月18日）在社媒平台X发文说：“最近有报道说，她（卡拉斯）在访问墨西哥期间，将以色列比作南非曾经存在的种族隔离政权……迄今为止，她对此事未作任何否认、回应或评论。”

他进而写道：“因此，作为以色列外交部长，我别无选择，只能切断与卡拉斯女士的一切联系，直到她收回对世界上唯一犹太国家——也是中东唯一民主国家——的血祭诽谤（blood libel）。”

“血祭诽谤”指的是一则反犹谣言，声称犹太人会谋杀基督教徒的孩子，用这些小孩的血来进行宗教仪式。

萨尔还在贴文中说：“欧盟长期以来一直对以色列国采取偏执且可耻的欺骗行为。”

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据欧洲动态新闻网（Euractiv）上周独家报道，卡拉斯在墨西哥举行的高级别闭门会谈中，将以色列对待加沙和约旦河西岸巴勒斯坦人的方式，与南非种族隔离政策相提并论。

包括列席官员和外交官在内的多名人士告诉欧洲动态新闻网，卡拉斯描述了去年访南非和在约翰内斯堡参观种族隔离博物馆的经历，称自己深受触动。

她承认以色列拥有自卫权，但同时表明，以色列对哈马斯2023年10月7日跨境袭击的回应，与南非所指控的种族灭绝行为相称，并称以色列在约旦河西岸的定居点破坏以巴两国方案的可能。

1,200-year-old Robin Hood oak tree in Sherwood Forest has died, group says: “Heartbreaking for everyone”

2026-06-18T07:24:00-0400 / CBS News

A massive ancient oak tree linked to the legend of Robin Hood may have been loved to death.

The 1,200-year-old Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is believed to have died after it didn’t sprout leaves this spring, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said Thursday.

Visitors over the past two centuries who viewed the tree’s gnarled limbs and sprawling canopy in Nottingham compressed the soil, making it difficult for rain to reach its roots, the conservation group said, despite the immediate area around the massive oak being fenced off.

The forest has been under threat for years and the tree had been rumored to have died in the past — only to have the group confirm it was still alive.

That is no longer the case.

“The tree’s failure to produce leaves this year is heartbreaking for everyone,” Hollie Drake of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said in a statement announcing the death.

The “Major Oak” tree, where Robin Hood allegedly used as a hide out in Sherwood Forest, is seen in Nottinghamshire, England, Oct. 19, 2007. AP/SIMON DAWSON

The tree is said to have sheltered Robin Hood, the legendary 13th-century bandit who stole from the rich and gave to the poor and took refuge in the forest when being pursued by the sheriff of Nottingham.

It got its name after being mentioned in a book on oak trees by Major Hayman Rooke in 1790 that led to the first wave of fans who flocked to the forest.

It’s impossible to say what killed the tree, but the footprints of millions contributed to its downfall, along with intervention to shore up its massive limbs using cables and poles. Climate change that has brought heat waves and drought was also blamed.

Tree experts found the root system strangled and starved.

“Ancient trees like the Major Oak are the ‘conservation white rhinos of the U.K.’ but their decline is far less visible,” said Ed Pyne, of the Woodland Trust. “Saving them is vital to the health of the world we live in and yet most disappear quietly, without the recognition or care given to the Major Oak.”

In addition to its place in folklore, the forest is known for Sherwood oaks that floated the ships of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson’s Royal Navy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and as timbers in the roof of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

The Major Oak was spared from the saw and had been protected by a fence since the 1970s.

A boy stands on the fence surrounding the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, England, in a June 30, 2013 file photo. CBS News

“Although this marks the end of the Major Oak as a living tree, it does not mark the end of its story,” the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said.

“The tree and soil beneath it will continue to be a vital refuge for wildlife and the knowledge we have gained by looking after the Major Oak will help preserve other ancient oaks across the country,” the group said. “Its legacy will live on through its saplings and the legends associated with it, with plans being drawn up with our partners, and the tree will continue to be a vital refuge for wildlife.”

Drake said the tree will be a monument that people can visit, “living on in the legend of Robin Hood and continuing to provide as much support to the forest’s ecosystem in death as in life.”

Exclusive: Trump administration ramps up effort to revoke citizenship from naturalized Americans

2026-06-18T08:00:25.491Z / CNN

• The Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October, a significant increase in efforts to revoke citizenship.
• The Justice Department has already filed 29 cases in less than two months, far exceeding the annual average of less than 10.
• Civil litigators have been pulled from other divisions to pursue these cases targeting naturalized citizens accused of fraud or crimes.

AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

The Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October, significantly intensifying its effort to revoke citizenship from people naturalized in the United States, according to a senior Justice Department official.

In less than two months this year, the Justice Department has filed 29 denaturalization cases targeting foreign-born Americans whom it accuses of fraudulently obtaining US citizenship.

Civil litigators are actively reviewing additional cases to file as the department picks up a pace that has already surpassed previous years: Between 2008 and June 12, 2026, 166 denaturalization complaints were filed, an annual average of less than 10, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

The push is part of President Donald Trump’s broader, aggressive immigration agenda — which has gone well beyond targeting people in the country illegally — and reveals how federal agencies have shifted resources to prioritize that agenda.

Behind the scenes, the Justice Department has pulled civil litigators from various divisions — including those assigned to investigating fraud, which the administration has flaunted as another top priority — to pursue denaturalization cases, according to the senior DOJ official. The cases are also being sent to US attorney offices at a time when many are already under immense strain.

“This is a lawful tool that Congress has had on the books for decades,” the senior DOJ official told CNN, adding that denaturalization cases should be prioritized “to protect the integrity of American citizenship and make sure people who are present in this country and have enjoyed the benefits of citizenship are doing so lawfully, and the right people are acquiring citizenship.”

The cases filed by the Trump administration so far include people who are accused of committing fraud, sexual abuse of a minor, or expressed support for terrorism before or during the naturalization process.

The federal government has the authority in federal statute to move toward revoking citizenship of an individual if they made false statements that were relevant to the naturalization process or if the citizenship was illegally procured, meaning they weren’t eligible for it. Denaturalization cases generally fall under one of those categories and then proceed as civil or criminal cases depending on the circumstances.

Denaturalizations do not apply to those who were born in the country and received citizenship through birthright. (Separately, Trump has attempted, via executive order, to end automatic birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court will soon rule on whether that policy move is legal.)

In the last decade, nearly 8 million people became naturalized US citizens, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The administration signaled its intent to prioritize denaturalizations in a June 2025 memo from Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate. Shumate listed 10 categories of priorities for cases, including individuals who pose a danger to national security, engaged in war crimes, engaged in fraud, or committed felonies not disclosed during the naturalization process, among others.

“These categories are intended to guide the Civil Division in prioritizing which cases to pursue; however, these categories do not limit the Civil Division from pursuing any particular case, nor are they listed in a particular order of importance,” the memo reads.

The denaturalization unit is made up of 12 attorneys who are working through a backlog of cases and continuing to field referrals from the Department of Homeland Security. The backlog includes identity fraud cases, as well as prior conviction cases, war criminal cases, and terrorism cases, the senior DOJ official said.

Given the volume, however, the Justice Department is pulling from other offices in its civil division, including civil fraud attorneys, political appointees in the front office, among other attorneys to expand capacity.

US attorney offices, meanwhile, are also being referred cases and distributing those around the country depending on where the case will be filed. The senior DOJ official said US attorney offices may file “several hundred more” cases.

The cases are intensive and time-consuming, which is partly why previous administrations have largely focused on people involved in war crimes and terrorism.

The Biden administration, for example, filed a total of 24 cases over four years, according to the Justice Department.

“They may be able to expedite the process for initiating these cases, but regardless of the steps they take before cases are filed, the litigation process itself is still going to be a huge impediment to their goal of denaturalizing people in huge numbers,” said Stacey Young, who served at DOJ under multiple administrations and is the founder and executive director of Justice Connection.

Denaturalization is rare and can only occur in federal court. Historically, the US revoked citizenship for a range of reasons, from lying about a person’s date of arrival, age or marital status to political reasons. During World War II, for example, the US reviewed naturalization cases of German Americans who were pro-Nazi.

Lawyers in the Justice Department had previously focused their efforts on people who had been found guilty of egregious crimes, making the cases they’d bring to court more clear cut, people familiar with these cases told CNN. These days, though, some Justice Department lawyers are feeling a building pressure to pursue any case that can be argued under the law — even alleged fraud based on how paperwork was filled out, the people told CNN.

Justice Department officials maintain that the agency is focusing on people who lied about criminal history or criminal acts that were ongoing when they applied for US citizenship.

“People who got a parking ticket — that’s not going to be somebody that we’re going to focus our resources on and may not even qualify for denaturalization under the statute,” the senior DOJ official said. “It’s really about finding people who have committed serious fraud against the United States and identifying those individuals and proceeding as quickly as we can.”

“Gaining U.S. citizenship is a privilege and under the steadfast leadership of President Trump, this Department of Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy for the abuse of this process,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in a June statement.

If the administration succeeds in a denaturalization case, that person will return to the immigration status they had prior to acquiring US citizenship. Generally, they usually return to their permanent resident status, though depending on the reasons for their denaturalization, they could also face deportation proceedings.

“The reason for the robustness of the protections, the reason the standard is clear and convincing evidence, etc. is because of Supreme Court decisions,” said Daniel Kanstroom, professor of law at Boston College Law School.

Kanstroom noted that the emphasis on denaturalizations by the administration is “potentially worrisome” but not currently cause for alarm, since the cases filed so far generally fit the type of cases previous administrations have pursued.

CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz contributed to this report.

美国审查驻欧部队 促北约朝欧洲主导迈进

2026年6月18日 18:21 / 联合早报

赫格塞斯星期四（6月18日）在布鲁塞尔的北约国防部长会议上，对北约盟友采取严厉措辞，但也承认许多北约成员国在加强防务方面取得长足进步。 （路透社）

美国战争部长赫格塞斯说，五角大楼会在未来六个月内对驻欧部队进行审查，确保北约“在迅速且不可逆转地朝欧洲主导的方向迈进”。

法新社报道，赫格塞斯星期四（6月18日）在布鲁塞尔的北约国防部长会议上，发表上述言论。华盛顿此前一直在施压欧洲盟国，为自身安全承担更大责任。

赫格塞斯表明：“这会是一次真正的审查，目的是确保北约正迅速、不可逆转地朝着欧洲主导的方向迈进，并承担起捍卫欧洲的主要责任。”

北约领导人会议即将在7月召开，美国正不断加大施压力度，力求确保盟国兑现大幅增加国防开支的承诺。

赫格塞斯强调，今后华盛顿支付用于覆盖北约组织运营成本的会费将取决于盟国是否达到开支目标。

美国2026年的北约会费约为7亿9000万美元（约10亿新元），赫格塞斯说：“如果其他盟国不紧急增加军费，我们的会费缴纳额就会相应减少。”

此外，伊朗战争期间，一些北约国家拒绝为美国对伊朗的军事行动提供便利和协助，此举招致美国总统特朗普不满。

赫格塞斯说，这次审查也旨在确保美国的“准入、驻军和飞越权得到明确界定和保障”。

“太可耻了。这些盟友让美国的儿女——我们的儿女——置身于危险之中。没有任何借口能够为此开脱。”

尽管措辞严厉，赫格塞斯还是承认，许多北约成员国在加强防务方面取得长足进步，并称工作正在取得进展。

“一些盟友已经领会我们的意思并采取行动。你们自己心里清楚，我们对此深表感谢。”

US banks to make final push on capital rule changes as Fed wraps up consultation

2026-06-18T10:02:38.408Z / https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/us-banks-make-final-push-capital-rule-changes-fed-wraps-up-consultation-2026-06-18/

• Banks seek technical tweaks that could further reduce some new capital hikes
• Industry plans to challenge capital charges on trading activities, four industry officials said
• Largest banks also want GSIB surcharge recalibrated using economic growth since 2015

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) – Large U.S. banks on Thursday will formally pitch the central bank on tweaks to a Federal Reserve ​proposal aimed at reducing the funds they must set aside to absorb potential losses, as the central bank enters the last leg of a marathon ‌overhaul of U.S. capital rules.

Among their top asks will be reductions to capital assigned to Wall Street trading activities, scrapping a requirement to hold capital against unused credit card lines, and further fixes to reduce the impact of a surcharge levied on globally interconnected banks, according to five industry executives and employees. The officials spoke anonymously to discuss ongoing regulatory matters and the contents of comment letters that are not ​yet public.

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U.S. regulators led by the Federal Reserve in March unveiled new relaxed drafts of sweeping capital rules, which they estimated would reduce big banks’ loss-absorbing capital by ​around 4.8%, arguing the current rules are hurting the economy. The so-called ‘Basel’ rules overhaul how banks measure their risk and in turn how much ⁠capital they need.

Lenders believe the new proposal is a dramatic improvement from the central bank’s original 2023 plan put forward by Democratic officials keen to impose stricter bank rules, ​which had envisaged a 20% capital hike following regional bank failures.

But after analyzing hundreds of pages of proposed technical changes, lenders have identified issues which they will make one last-ditch push to ​fix, the sources said.

The deadline for banks to submit formal comments is Thursday. A Fed spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

“There’s a really big push to get it wrapped up in the next six months because there are other items on the regulatory agenda,” said Matthew Bisanz, a partner at Mayer Brown who specializes in financial regulation.

Critics of the easier rules argue that trimming bank capital requirements ​makes the firms more vulnerable to risks, and could hurt the economy should financial firms falter and restrict lending.

Last month, Phillip Basil, director of Economic Growth and Financial Stability ​for Better Markets, said in a press statement “strong capital standards are the foundation” of a resilient banking system, because “they ensure that banks—not taxpayers, workers, or small businesses—absorb losses when risks materialize.”

TRADING, CREDIT CARD CHANGES

Wall ‌Street banks ⁠will argue that regulators have been too conservative and blunt in assigning capital to trading activities, especially since the Fed annually gauges individual banks’ risks with its “stress test” health checks. Industry groups will suggest changes that could dramatically shrink or even erase the additional capital the Fed has proposed for that business, executives said.

The banking industry is also expected to push back against a requirement to effectively hold capital against 10% of unused credit lines known as “unconditionally cancelable commitments,” the most common of which is unused credit card lines.

Currently, such credit lines are ​capital-free because banks can yank them at any ​time, but regulators argue that in ⁠practice lenders may not do that during times of economic stress due to client relationships or other risk management practices.

A handful of the biggest banks will also make another push to soften the capital “surcharge” the Fed imposed on global systemically important banks in the U.S., or “GSIB,” ​following the 2008 financial crisis.

The Fed proposed a one-time adjustment to account for economic growth dating back to roughly 2019, as well ​as automatic updates for ⁠future growth, which would in turn reduce banks’ size relative to the economy and the resulting surcharge. But lenders will again argue it should account for growth since its creation in 2015, the people said.

NO MAJOR CHALLENGE

Banks do not plan to push back hard the way they did in 2023. Multiple executives said banks have pared back their asks, focusing on the most significant ⁠issues.

One industry group ​identified nearly 100 issues with the proposal but plans to make the case for only a few dozen, ​according to one of the people who is familiar with the plan.

Reuters had previously reported that Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman, who is leading the rulewriting effort, had conveyed to banks they should be measured in ​their feedback, and executives said the industry is keen to move on from a policy fight that has sucked up years of time and energy.

Editing by Michelle Price and Aurora Ellis

赫格塞斯星期四（6月18日）在布鲁塞尔的北约国防部长会议上，对北约盟友采取严厉措辞，但也承认许多北约成员国在加强防务方面取得长足进步。 （路透社）

美国战争部长赫格塞斯说，五角大楼会在未来六个月内对驻欧部队进行审查，确保北约“在迅速且不可逆转地朝欧洲主导的方向迈进”。

法新社报道，赫格塞斯星期四（6月18日）在布鲁塞尔的北约国防部长会议上，发表上述言论。华盛顿此前一直在施压欧洲盟国，为自身安全承担更大责任。

赫格塞斯表明：“这会是一次真正的审查，目的是确保北约正迅速、不可逆转地朝着欧洲主导的方向迈进，并承担起捍卫欧洲的主要责任。”

北约领导人会议即将在7月召开，美国正不断加大施压力度，力求确保盟国兑现大幅增加国防开支的承诺。

赫格塞斯强调，今后华盛顿支付用于覆盖北约组织运营成本的会费将取决于盟国是否达到开支目标。

美国2026年的北约会费约为7亿9000万美元（约10亿新元），赫格塞斯说：“如果其他盟国不紧急增加军费，我们的会费缴纳额就会相应减少。”

此外，伊朗战争期间，一些北约国家拒绝为美国对伊朗的军事行动提供便利和协助，此举招致美国总统特朗普不满。

赫格塞斯说，这次审查也旨在确保美国的“准入、驻军和飞越权得到明确界定和保障”。

“太可耻了。这些盟友让美国的儿女——我们的儿女——置身于危险之中。没有任何借口能够为此开脱。”

尽管措辞严厉，赫格塞斯还是承认，许多北约成员国在加强防务方面取得长足进步，并称工作正在取得进展。

“一些盟友已经领会我们的意思并采取行动。你们自己心里清楚，我们对此深表感谢。”

分析：特朗普虽不惜大让步 美伊协议恐难达成

2026年6月18日 18:36 / 联合早报

美伊宣布签署谅解备忘录，初步达成停战协议后，德黑兰在星期三（6月17日）晚间举行聚会，支持伊朗政府的群众高举手机亮起灯光并挥舞国旗。 （路透社）

（华盛顿综合电）美国政府借伊朗绝不能发展核武和导弹等红线，作为对德黑兰采取军事行动的理由，不过特朗普总统的最新表态凸显他为求与伊朗达成停战，几乎完全摒弃了这些红线。分析指美伊签署的谅解备忘录文本显示美国做出巨大让步，却仅仅换来伊朗放松对霍尔木兹海峡的钳制，最后仍可能无法达成终极协议。

特朗普星期三（6月17日）在法国出席七国集团（G7）峰会后，召开记者会说明美伊签署的初步停战协议，他虽然重申伊朗永不会拥有核武器，但随后却暗示伊朗应当有权拥有浓缩铀、获准研发弹道导弹，以及动用被美国冻结的巨额美元资产。

对于浓缩铀，特朗普说：“一些周边邻国有，你却不让他们以发电和其他目的持有，这有点说不过去……你得有点常识。”

说到弹道导弹，特朗普同样称周边邻国也有，“导弹不是问题，它们可以破坏一些地区，但不会将地球炸毁。”

至于伊朗被冻结的庞大美元资产，特朗普说：“这不是我们的钱，是他们的。我们在某个时刻冻结，终究还是得归还。如果不还，以后就没人投资美元了。”

对此，彭博社发表分析文章点出，自前总统奥巴马2015年与伊朗签署“联合全面行动计划”（JCPOA，简称伊朗核协议）后，这三大课题就一直是美国处理伊朗问题的核心争议所在，特朗普本身更多次以此抨击奥巴马在遏止伊朗的威胁方面遭遇重大挫败。

曾在小布什和特朗普首个任内担任国务院幕僚的惠顿（Christian Whiton）向彭博社说：“特朗普做了很多他之前一直批评奥巴马的事。不论他的本意是什么，他要表明的是美国不会恢复军事行动，因为这么做会造成大萧条时代以来最严重的经济衰退。”

CNN评论指特朗普满足了伊朗过往要不到的好处

美国有线电视新闻网（CNN） 全球事务分析员麦格克（Brett McGurk）则发表分析文章指出，以美伊公布的14点谅解备忘录文本来看，特朗普似乎认定能达成任何协议，都比胶着于现状好，伊朗以霍尔木兹海峡要挟美国的策略看来已成功。

麦格克曾在小布什、奥巴马、特朗普首任和拜登政府的国家安全委员会任职，以往也曾参与跟伊朗的艰难谈判，他指出，这份14点备忘录“给了许多伊朗以往要求过却极少得到”的好处。

根据备忘录，美国将撤除美军在霍尔木兹海峡的封堵，伊朗将清除水雷等障碍，确保海峡航运恢复至战前水平。然而，伊朗除此就没有其他义务，美国却须在协议签署后豁免伊朗原油和其他石化产品的制裁，等同于恢复在伊朗核协议下，伊朗可享有的条件，每年可从中赚取600亿至700亿美元的石油收入。

麦格克分析，备忘录关于伊朗资产解冻的条款相当棘手，美国甚至可能须在伊朗履行开放海峡的承诺前就处理这个事项，而且伊朗央行有权指定解冻资金的受益人，除了伊朗核协议，以往其他协议都不曾这么设定。

麦格克进一步点出，伊朗并未针对核武器做出任何新承诺，特朗普签署备忘录付出极大代价，却仅换来伊朗重申了与伊朗核协议类似的承诺。

至于外界广为关注的3000亿美元重建基金，备忘录虽没有直接设立这个基金，却要求美国和区域伙伴在未来60天内制定全套计划，且须作为终极协议的一部分。这意味着，没有这笔资金，就没有终极协议。

麦格克根据备忘录文本和伊朗过去47年来的谈判套路预测，美国政府很难将这份一面倒的备忘录转化成完整的协议，“备忘录标榜要达成的和平，恐怕难以持久”。

英媒：摩根大通禁止香港员工使用Anthropic模型

2026年6月18日 16:03 / 联合早报

美国投行摩根大通已禁止香港员工访问Anthropic的人工智能（AI）模型。 （路透社档案照片）

英国媒体报道，美国投行摩根大通已禁止香港员工访问Anthropic的人工智能（AI）模型，显示这一技术在美国境外的应用正面临极其严格的审查。

据路透社引述《金融时报》报道，三名知情人士透露，由于Anthropic与摩根大通的许可协议中有关“使用条款”的特定措辞，摩根大通已将Claude模型从其驻港员工获批使用的大型语言模型（LLM）内部名单中移除。

在此之前，高盛也做出了类似决定，于今年4月将Claude从其香港员工的获准使用工具名单中剔除。

今年4月，Anthropic首次向少数企业和机构开放Mythos模型测试，并警告该模型具备发现网络安全漏洞的能力，不宜广泛推广。今年6月初，Anthropic发布了Mythos级模型的首个公开版本Fable 5，但为管控其突破网络漏洞的能力，同步设置了许多限制措施。

然而，华盛顿仍以国家安全为由下达紧急出口管制令，迫使Anthropic在全球范围内关停Mythos 5和Fable 5模型。

延伸阅读
美国担忧Anthropic模型被中俄等军情机构利用

随着中美两国在AI技术、数据安全以及先进计算工具获取方面的紧张关系不断升温，西方科技公司开发的AI技术在海外市场的应用正面临愈发严苛的限制。

多年来，华盛顿一直对用于训练AI的晶片实施严密管控，而此次则直接将审查触角伸向了模型本身。

尽管美国企业开发的AI模型并未向中国大陆开放，但只要遵守美企设定的使用限制，香港在很大程度上仍是这些模型获准运营的市场。

Barack Obama confronts the work that remains for Democrats — and for him

2026-06-18T09:00:26.485Z / CNN

• As Barack Obama opens his $850 million presidential center in Chicago, he remains a primary unifying figure in the Democratic Party even as some criticize his time in office.
• Obama continues advising candidates and shaping strategy ahead of November’s midterm elections.
• His legacy faces debate from critics who see his presidency as insufficiently bold.

AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

Chicago—

Former President Barack Obama on Thursday is getting what he wanted for so long: his words carved into stone, a monument to his presidency entering the Chicago skyline.

Walking through his $850 million, multiuse presidential center the past few months, Obama went down the slide in the playground and tried out the chairs, noting which ones needed stoppers to keep from scuffing the floors. He asked for the whole text of an exhibit on sports to be redone, frustrated that the original text didn’t seem written by a true fan.

But he also told a gathering of his campaign and administration alumni, the night before the center’s opening, that he didn’t believe in nostalgia and didn’t intend to wallow in it.

“I think nostalgia implies this sentiment that there’s this thing in the past that was somehow golden and better, but is unattainable now,” he said Wednesday. “And it lets us off the hook, because it makes us feel like, ‘Well, you know, that was wonderful, but now, this is the reality, and there’s not much we can do about it.’”

The 44th president isn’t ready to fade into history. And many top Democrats don’t want him to.

“Hope and change still remain incredibly powerful as a counter-narrative to what the Republican Party at this moment stands for in America,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CNN.

A decade after he walked out of the Oval Office, Obama is still the most popular living president and the primary unifying figure in a party racked by leadership disputes and fights over its direction on key issues. But his legacy beyond those elbowing for their spots in the VIP section of Thursday’s opening is more complicated.

To some, talk of hope and change can come off as naïve or a disconnected relic after President Donald Trump’s two successful campaigns. Particularly to his critics on the rising left, Obama’s perceived lack of boldness while president, particularly on foreign policy and economic issues, is exactly what led their party and the country overall to now.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, an old Obama friend, described the presidential center as an “active, engaged endeavor to lift up and train leaders for the future.”

“I really reject the notion that somehow Barack Obama is responsible for what came after,” he added. “I guess we’re all responsible in many ways for where we are. I mean, I didn’t vote for it, but we all have a share of responsibility for where the country is today.”

Throughout the presidential center, there are signs Obama asked to be added throughout, all on the same theme: “The Work That Remained,” a phrase that popped up in his second-term speeches and throughout his post-presidency.

Voices are featured in several spots through the museum arguing that Obama went too far or didn’t go far enough, including on topics such as immigration, climate change, healthcare and gun violence — the last of which he has often cited as a great failure of his presidency.

Hagiography comes with every presidential library. The “Economic Crisis and Recovery” exhibit, for example, notes the banking collapse Obama inherited and explains how he “responded boldly to rescue and rebuild it on a new foundation for growth and prosperity.” The “Work That Remained” plaque blames Congress for not addressing what Obama believed were the underlying problems of the economy, including “to make it easier for employees to form unions, for guaranteed paid sick and family leave, and for a higher minimum wage,” according to a preview photograph shared with CNN.

“He took the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and traded it to Wall Street,” said Matt Stoller, a writer on economics who leads the liberal American Economic Liberties Project. Added Stoller: “He lit the fuse for authoritarianism under Donald Trump. He created the world for Donald Trump to come into.”

But top Democrats are eager to stand with Obama whenever they can.

“It’s very hard to sit 10, 20 years later and cast judgment. I was a beast of an athlete back in my day, but there’s not a game that I played that I can’t think of things I could have done better if I could go back and relive them,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who played football at Stanford. “But in the time, Barack Obama was a hero and saved our economy and advanced our nation along really specific indices that are lasting and still are making a difference.”

Jeffries is frequently on the phone or in rooms with Obama. Their conversations range from the personal to gut checks on strategy to political advice like supporting what became last year’s government shutdown.

Jeffries, who is on track to be House speaker if Democrats take the majority in November, offered a Chicago sports reference to describe how central he sees Obama’s ongoing role for the party.

“President Obama was Michael Jordan while he was in office,” Jeffries said, “and he’s Phil Jackson out of it.”

Obama, 64, has bristled publicly and privately about how involved he’s been in politics, in part due to Trump’s enduring influence and the way that former President Joe Biden’s time in office turned out.

But despite his annual reluctance to campaign more than a few days in each election cycle, Obama still loves the dominance he has in Democratic politics – even as his closest advisers, several of whom spoke to CNN for this story, argue his engagement is about more than ego.

“It’s certainly flattering, but points to something more important: the country is still largely aligned with his vision and his story,” said Eric Schultz, an adviser who’s been helping Obama craft his post-presidency since working for him in the White House. “It’s a dark time, but if elected officials from across the country are seeking his voice, that’s a pretty good sign that his theory of the case still very much resonates.”

An easy measure of how Democratic candidates feel about Obama is the rate of endorsement requests coming into his office that, according to people familiar with the matter, has remained as high as ever. Another is the focus groups in California last year that showed him the best messenger for Democrats’ ballot proposition to newly gerrymander the state. Or all the ways he’s invoked, from Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt arguing, “I feel like him and I have the same experience,” to Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz announcing she would run in a majority-Black district in a video with a vintage “HOPE” poster displayed over her shoulder.

When Obama got involved with the spring campaign for Virginia Democrats’ successful but since-overturned gerrymandering referendum, Jeffries noted that ads on both sides of the issue featured comments from the former president.

Not long after Zohran Mamdani won his primary for New York City mayor in June 2025, Obama was on the phone, giving advice on getting governing right, offering to be a sounding board. Both got a credibility bump: Mamdani with skeptics of a then-33-year-old democratic socialist, Obama with the young change-makers he always wants to be counted with.

According to people familiar with the matter, toward the end of a meeting earlier in the year, Obama made his standard offer to let him know if there was more he could do to help. Mamdani pitched one idea that didn’t gel, then came back asking for help promoting his push for universal childcare.

Obama joined Mamdani to read to preschoolers and sing “Wheels on the Bus” at a childcare center in the Bronx, arranged around a trip to New York the Obamas were making to see a performance of the play they are co-producing on Broadway. It felt an especially long way from Mamdani’s 2013 tweets, like the one still up from the then-21-year-old Bowdoin student, “Hasnt Obama shown that the lesser evil is still pretty damn evil?”

Though he has not been officially bringing in prospective 2028 presidential candidates as he was already doing at this point ahead of the 2020 election, Obama has hosted both Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro at his Washington office for longer meetings.

“I understand the frustrations that people have right now with the way things are going,” Moore said. “I share them. I think there are people frustrated with the level of defensiveness, I think the people frustrated with the direction the country’s going right now. President Obama is not the reason for it. It was leadership like his that was the antidote when we saw this before.”

It’s not just in the museum where Obama is debating his own legacy.

“Of course I would have wanted something better and single-payer and the rest,” Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari, who introduced him last year at a meeting with other freshman House Democrats and described his eye-opening rundown of dealing with the politics of passing the Affordable Care Act, which passed in 2010. “But this was the 2000s and that wasn’t going to happen.”

As a junior in high school, Ansari was knocking on doors for Obama’s campaign. She said seeing him 20 years later in the room with her, just a few months after she got her own congressional pin, was surreal.

“We have a new generation of leaders coming up right now, current members, people running for office at different levels across the country who represent hope and change for the new group of high schoolers that are out there right now,” Ansari said. “That’s Obama’s entire legacy.”

Hope and Trump

Obama sees his role at this point more as ensuring a different worldview will win out through carefully chosen moments of speaking out, according to people familiar with his thinking. He is building his Obama Fellows civic engagement programs. He wants to keep doing more of the bending of “the arc of the moral universe,” as Martin Luther King Jr. said in a quote he often cites, while also trying to provide a rudder to keep his party from moving in directions he fears will be self-defeating.

Neither Obama nor Trump is letting the other go, given the issues like healthcare and the Middle East that shaped both their presidencies. Trump often posts about Obama using his middle name, Hussein. And just on Wednesday, Trump said in comparing their respective negotiations with Iran, “They laughed at Obama and they said, ‘He’s a stupid son of a bitch.’”

That was, of course, after Obama in an interview with “Good Morning America” leading up to the library opening criticized Trump’s war in Iran and said, “It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place.”

Obama decided not to invite Trump to the opening, eschewing the traditional bipartisanship around presidential centers last seen at George W. Bush’s library in 2013. Trump posted an AI-generated image showing a garbage bag atop Obama’s tower and saying it will be “a ‘Mecca’ for those who hate America!”

Obama’s despair about Trump’s second term remains high, particularly around Republicans not pushing back. But he was pleased when he heard GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, who lost his Louisiana primary last month after failing to re-ingratiate himself with Trump for his vote in an impeachment trial to convict him over the January 6 riots, made an unannounced visit to the center two weeks ago.

Cassidy was in the area for his granddaughter’s graduation from the University of Chicago a few blocks away, and staff reached out for advance tickets to the soft launch. The two don’t have an active relationship and didn’t talk after. According to a person familiar with his reaction, Obama said that’s part of the spirit he wants for the center.

Appearing with her husband on Wednesday night at the campaign and administration alumni event, Michelle Obama offered a more pointed goal. She said the center was there “to lay this legacy so that nobody — nobody — can act like this didn’t happen.”