A federal jury this week convicted New York resident Ji Wang on charges of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets after the U.S. said he stole information about optical fibers for high-powered lasers and planned to use that information to start a business in China.
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa said Nov. 6 that he’s “deeply concerned” that Iran’s oil exports are reportedly increasing despite the Trump administration’s efforts to cut a key source of funding for Tehran’s terrorist proxies.
The U.K. on Nov. 6 added two entries to its domestic counterterrorism sanctions regime. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation sanctioned the New Irish Republican Army and Kieran James Gallagher, who's suspected of "being involved in terrorist activity by providing financial services, or making available funds or economic resources, for the purposes of terrorism." Gallagher was also made subject to director disqualification sanctions, which bar him from acting as a director of a company or taking part in the management of one.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned three people who it said helped to funnel tens of millions of dollars from Iran to Hezbollah this year, which allowed the terror group to "support its paramilitary forces, rebuild its terrorist infrastructure, and resist the Lebanese government’s efforts to assert sovereign control over all Lebanese territory." The designations target Hezbollah member Ossama Jaber, as well as Ja’far Muhammad Qasir and Samer Kasbar, who help manage Hezbollah's finances.
Although China agreed to temporarily suspend its sweeping rare earth export restrictions, the threat of those controls returning appears likely, said Jude Blanchette, director of the Rand China Research Center.
Allowing Nvidia to sell its B30A chip to China would undermine the Trump administration’s export control strategy and broader technology policy goals, researchers with the Institute for Progress think tank said this week.
The State Department will officially remove its arms embargo against Cambodia under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, effective Nov. 7, the agency said in a Federal Register notice released this week.
The U.K.'s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation renewed a Russia-related license this week that authorizes certain payments involving sanctioned credit or financial institutions. The license, which was set to expire Nov. 6, was extended for two years through Nov. 7, 2027. OFSI also revised the definition of "designated credit or financial institution" and the license's reporting requirements.
The U.S. this week charged a Belorussian citizen with illegally exporting U.S. avionics and aircraft equipment to Russia, including for use by a company on the Entity List.
House Select Committee on China ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., and Del. James Moylan, R-Guam, introduced Nov. 4 a companion to a Senate bill that would require the executive branch to develop a strategy to counter deepening cooperation among U.S. "adversaries" in such areas as sanctions evasion and the sharing of restricted dual-use technology (see 2505290076).