The United States has extended its efforts to punish Chinese firms suspected of using forced labor from the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region, where the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority is facing...
The United States has expanded its efforts to block China’s access to cutting-edge U.S. technology. In a proposed rule introduced on January 13, the Commerce Department unveiled a series of export restrictions...
At the end of 2020, the Islamic Republic of Iran was down to just $4 billion in accessible foreign exchange reserves. Its terrorist mastermind, Qassem Solemani, and the godfather of its nuclear weapons...
“You and your children … are our legitimate targets around the world,” an X account called @idfleaks threatened in December 2023, addressing service members from the Israel Defense Forces...
The Treasury Department designated 12 individuals and entities in Iran, China, and Hong Kong on Monday for supporting Iran’s ballistic missile and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) programs. This action...
Chinese drone manufacturer Shenzhen DJI Innovation Technology Company Limited (known simply as DJI) controls over 70 percent of the global drone market, perfectly illustrating the fusion of China’s economic...
The Biden administration is boasting about its planned $13 billion investment in cybersecurity for federal civilian agencies, but the White House’s plans neglect essential programs, including foundational research and standards setting...
Amidst China’s economic downturn, Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently announced new industrial policies aimed at cementing China’s dominance in several emerging technology sectors, such as batteries,...
Turkey is attempting the impossible by trying to reestablish a productive relationship with the US while declaring his unreserved support for Hamas, and Congress may be gearing up to push back. After suffering...
The United States needs an Economic Security Coordination Office to compete economically with China.
Ottawa plans to halt all arms exports to Israel pursuant to a non-binding parliamentary motion passed on March 19, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told the Toronto...
The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions against five Turkey-based entities and a Turkish national for facilitating sanctions evasion by Russian companies supporting Russia’s military or...
The passage of the CHIPS and Science Act one year ago this month was heralded as a monumental step in U.S. efforts to compete with China in the tech domain. “We need our government and our economy...
The rest of the federal government—and state and local agencies and even private-sector infrastructure companies—should quit using this Chinese technology.
Russians Take Eastern Bakhmut, While Zelenskyy Vows to Hold the Rest Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group has captured the eastern part of Bakhmut, Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads...
The United States took steps last week to curtail Iran’s drone production capabilities, with reports over the weekend indicating that Moscow and Tehran plan to build a drone factory in Russia. The U.S. Commerce Department issued new trade restrictions against seven Iranian entities associated with drone production, adding them to its export control list. This will require U.S.-based companies to seek special permission to export their products to these entities. In addition, the Treasury Department sanctioned an Iranian manufacturer of Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which Tehran has provided to Russia. Treasury also targeted an Iranian oil tanker with launch capabilities for UAVs as well as a ship accompanying it.
In 2016, China’s Hefei Province launched a high-profile but cryptic and closely guarded industrial project: The “506 Project.” It leveraged some 54 billion RMB of provincial funds, backed...
On October 17, Kyiv residents woke up to loud explosions. Russia had just launched a wave of drone attacks on civilian targets across Ukraine, which it carried out with Iranian-made Shahed-136 “suicide...
The Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM, disclosure requirement is coming for federal agencies and their contractors. Are managers and executives ready? An SBOM is a formal, machine-readable inventory...
Last month, the Biden administration added four Iranian cargo planes to its U.S. Department of Commerce blacklist of aircraft involved in export control violations. Among the aircraft is a Boeing 747...