Loretta Lynch, an Obama-era attorney general allegedly tried to get her client, a Chinese military company, removed from the Pentagon’s blacklist. A report from Reuters said last July, Ms. Lynch reportedly asked the assistant secretary of defense to remove DJI from the Pentagon’s blacklist. She used to run the Justice Department from 2015 to 2017. […]
As competition intensifies between the world’s two superpowers in areas of space and hypersonic technology, the U.S. Commerce Department is making another move. Who’s being targeted in the latest U.S. export crackdown? And how can America restrict the flow of its sensitive technologies? Topics in this episode: 43 China-Linked Entities Added to U.S. Blacklist U.S.: […]
President Joe Biden is wiping away hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt. What does it mean for everyday Americans and the economy? Congresswoman Virginia Foxx sits on the education committee, and she joins us to weigh in on Biden’s canceling billions of dollars in student debt. The results are in from Tuesday’s primaries. […]
BERLIN—The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTO), including several that once posed significant threats, killing hundreds if not thousands of people across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Although the groups are inactive, the decision is politically sensitive for […]
A high-value artificial intelligence company in China is facing U.S. sanctions. The Treasury Department indicated that the Chinese AI company SenseTime has connections to the Chinese military. The department added the firm to a blacklist composed of “Chinese military-industrial companies.”
The U.S. Commerce Department has added a dozen Chinese companies to a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns and some of the firms’ involvement in aiding the Chinese military’s quantum computing efforts. The list on Nov. 24 covers 27 new entities from four countries, including China, Japan, Pakistan, and Singapore, with several China and Pakistan-based […]
WASHINGTON—Republican U.S. senators led by Marco Rubio on Thursday called on the Biden administration to blacklist Honor, a former unit of embattled Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, describing the firm as a threat to national security. In a letter dated Thursday, seen by Reuters, Rubio described Honor as essentially an “arm” of the Chinese government with […]
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Defense Department will remove China’s Xiaomi from a government blacklist, a court filing showed, marking a reversal by the Biden administration of one of former President Donald Trump’s last actions aimed at Beijing before exiting office. The court filing said the company and the U.S. government would agree to resolve their ongoing litigation, […]
TAIPEI—Taiwan said on Wednesday its chip companies will adhere to U.S. rules after Washington added seven Chinese supercomputing entities last week to an economic blacklist and after a Taipei-based chipmaker halted orders from one of the entities named. The U.S. Commerce Department said the seven Chinese entities were “involved with building supercomputers used by China’s […]
A U.S. judge has temporarily halted a ban that blocks Americans from investing in a Chinese smartphone maker. In January, the Defense Department added Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi to a blacklist based on alleged links to the Chinese military. The ban bars all American investment in any companies blacklisted by the Defense Department. U.S. investors must divest all […]
President Joe Biden’s nominee for commerce secretary should commit to keeping China-based Huawei on a blacklist that blocks it from some activities in the United States, Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said Friday.
