The Biden administration is divided over whether to add Chinese smartphone maker Honor Device Co. Ltd. to an export blacklist due to past connections with Chinese tech company Huawei. This case illustrates the difficulties in drawing lines related to national security, as the United States continues to refine its export

During a hearing at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on September 8, a U.S. Commerce Department official said that multilateral cooperation is more important than unilateral use of export controls, especially in the context of the “foreign direct product rule.” Speaking on the Administration Views

Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) have introduced legislation [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2474/text] entitled the "American Telecommunications Security Act" that they say would "prohibit federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act from being used to purchase Chinese telecommunications equipment,

On June 22, the Administrative Court of Sweden issued a ruling that upheld a government ban on using Chinese tech company Huawei’s equipment in the country’s 5G network. In the ruling [https://www.domstol.se/en/nyheter/2021/06/forbudet-mot-produkter-fran-huawei-i-svenska-5g-nat-star-fast/] , the Administrative Court made it clear that it

On July 13, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted [https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-acts-protect-national-security-communications-supply-chain-0] an order [https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-21-86A1.pdf] that updates the rules on reimbursing telecoms companies for the cost of removing, replacing, and disposing of communications equipment that "poses an

At the Canadian Parliament’s House of Commons debate on February 5, 2021 [https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/house/sitting-58/hansard#Int-11121889] , MP James Cummings of the Conservative party pressed William Amos, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, on a ban on Huawei