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."

At an Atlantic Council event this week, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Alan Estevez talked about various trade issues with Keith Krach, who was Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment during the Trump administration. Both Estevez and Krach offered an

China's Ministry of Commerce recently published a draft of its implementing rules for its Export Control Law. The draft is now open for public comments until May 22. Some of the noteworthy elements of the draft are summarized below.

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

Reports indicate that an American software design firm has stopped providing services to Chinese drone maker DJI, in response to U.S. export controls.

Recently, the United States, the European Union and other nations have announced a wide range of sanctions against Russia. China's initial reaction has been to criticize the use of these sanctions as a matter of principle, but the extent to which it will cooperate with the sanctions remains

China issued its first White Paper on its export control system, providing a full picture of its system, implementation and enforcement. It also criticized the abuse of export controls without naming any specific nation, and called for more international cooperation to ensure “normal international science and technology exchanges and economic