Kathleen Palma, former vice president of global trade controls at Boeing, has joined American semiconductor company Applied Materials as vice president of global trade, she announced on LinkedIn. She began her new role this month.
Congress should strengthen the “guardrails” around federally funded research collaboration between American universities and Chinese defense-linked universities to ensure China does not obtain technology to improve its military or commit human rights abuses, two House committees said in a new report this week.
Legislation to increase the visibility of U.S. outbound investment will be considered during House-Senate negotiations on the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, the Senate Armed Services Committee announced last week.
The top lawmaker on the House Select Committee on China called on the U.S. to continue imposing strict export controls and investment restrictions against China, adding that those tools must be coupled with bolder investments in innovative American companies if the U.S. wants to “win” its technology competition with China.
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The next U.S. presidential administration will face a host of emerging technology issues in international trade, including advanced computing chips, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data centers, quantum and telecommunications infrastructure, said Nazak Nikakhtar, a Wiley Rein partner and a former acting Bureau of Industry and Security undersecretary.
Chinese and Dutch government officials met in China this week to discuss export restrictions as part of the fifth round of the two countries’ formal export control dialogue, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced, according to an unofficial translation. Officials discussed “issues of concern in the field of export control,” China said, and “agreed to further strengthen communication and exchanges” and “jointly maintain the stability of the semiconductor industry chain and supply chain.” The meeting was held days after the Netherlands put in place new export controls over certain semiconductor manufacturing tools (see 2409090024).
U.S. computing chip manufacturers told a congressional panel this week that they’re increasing their scrutiny of products that have ended up in Russian weapons used in Ukraine.
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The House approved several export control-related bills late Sept. 9, including the Remote Access Security Act, which is designed to close a loophole that has allowed China to use cloud service providers to access advanced U.S. computing chips remotely (see 2409040046).