Enhancing Export Controls News Today

Export controls are depicted as protecting the United States’ national security interests and competitive technological and economic edge against China. But another, less public, impetus for the curbs is a factor that has long been central to the U.S.-China relationship: human rights.

Export controls are depicted as protecting the United States’ national security interests and competitive technological and economic edge against China. But another, less public, impetus for the curbs is a factor that has long been central to the U.S.-China relationship: human rights.

On March 30, 2023, the United States and over 20 additional Subscribing States released a "Code of Conduct for Enhancing Export Controls of Goods and Technology That Could be Misused...