The U.S. likely will face challenges trying to place export controls on RISC-V, an open-source semiconductor architecture that policymakers fear China may use to evade export restrictions and leapfrog their U.S. competitors, Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology said this week.
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The U.S. and the U.K. this week announced new sanctions against Hamas officials, people and entities helping to finance the terror group’s operations in Gaza, the Treasury Department said.
Members of the European Parliament last week called on the bloc to sanction officials in China and Sudan for human rights violations.
The Defense Department’s new National Defense Industrial Strategy doesn't advocate for broad acquisition reform or significant new legislation, but it does show DOD plans to use existing authorities for several acquisition-related initiatives, including improving the Foreign Military Sales program, Wiley Rein said Jan. 19.
Although U.S. lawmakers have called on the Biden administration to develop a set of sanctions it could immediately impose against China if Beijing were to invade Taiwan, experts told a think tank this week that it remains unclear how exactly the U.S. would respond, including whether it would use military force.
The House Homeland Security Committee and the House Select Committee on China have asked a U.S. executive from Europe-based ABB to testify about how the firm secures the software and hardware it provides for ship-to-shore cranes built by China’s Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited (ZPMC).
USDA needs to improve how it collects, tracks and shares information on foreign investment in U.S. farmland, the Government Accountability Office wrote in a report released on Jan. 18.
The Bureau of Industry and Security last week removed three companies from the Unverified List after it was able to successfully complete end-use checks.
U.S. and Chinese officials met in Beijing last week for the third meeting of the two countries’ Financial Working Group, where they discussed “financial stability” and international financial institutions, including anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism controls. “U.S. officials also frankly raised areas of disagreement during the conversations,” the Treasury Department said in a readout of the meeting. Both sides agreed to continue meeting regularly, and Treasury said Secretary Janet Yellen "looks forward to a return visit to China at the appropriate time.”