Last week, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California unsealed a criminal complaint charging Jonathan Yet Wing Soong of San Jose with "smuggling and violating export control laws by allegedly secretly funneling sensitive aeronautics software to a Beijing university."

Last week, a U.S. district court judge in Texas ruled that Chinese telecommunications company ZTE committed visa fraud, but he decided not to revoke ZTE's probation for violating sanctions on Iran or to resentence ZTE. Senator Marco Rubio has now weighed in on the issue by calling

Last week, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to Commerce Department Secretary Raimondo in which they urged the Department "to strengthen Entity List rules for China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC)" and expressed concern that "Beijing

Republican Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee sent a letter yesterday to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, applauding reports that Commerce may strengthen export controls in relation to Chinese semiconductor company SMIC, while pressing Raimondo on issues related to the implementation of possible changes.

In an announcement [https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/12/commerce-acts-deter-misuse-biotechnology-other-us-technologies-peoples] of a final rule to be published in the federal register [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/17/2021-27406/addition-of-certain-entities-to-the-entity-list-and-revision-of-an-entry-on-the-entity-list] on December 17, the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Commerce Department said it

In an announcement [https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/11/commerce-lists-entities-involved-support-prc-military-quantum-computing] of a final rule published in the federal register [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/26/2021-25808/addition-of-entities-and-revision-of-entries-on-the-entity-list-and-addition-of-entity-to-the] on November 26, the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Commerce Department said it would add

Five Republican Senators – Tom Cotton (R-AR), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) -- sent a letter [https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-call-on-secretary-raimondo-to-blacklist-companies-that-provide-ai-technology-to-the-chinese-military] to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on November 15, arguing that the U.S. government "has done little to