The Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) recently designated five Chinese companies under BIS’s Validated End User Program. Because of that designation, certain dual-use items can be exported to those companies in China without an export license. The first reviews…
The State Department is apparently upset that a Pratt & Whitney engine exported from Canada by Pratt & Whitney Canada, a Canadian subsidiary of United Technologies, wound up in the Chinese military’s Z-10 attack helicopter, pictured above. State Department spokesman…
President Bush addressed this afternoon at the State Department a gathering of family members of Cuban political prisoners. Not surprisingly, he vowed to keep the Cuban embargo in place: As long as the regime maintains its monopoly over the political…
I now have a copy of the criminal complaint filed against Qing Li and it answers a number of questions left open by yesterday’s post on that case. The copy I have isn’t suitable for posting, but I should have…
Qing Li, a Chinese permanent resident in the United States, was recently indicted for attempting to export piezoresistive accelerometers to China without a license from the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”). Ms. Li had sent an email…