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SMIC’s Key Technical Researcher Quits Chinese Chipmaker Lai Shasha SMIC’s Key Technical Researcher Quits Chinese Chipmaker (Yicai Global) July 5 -- The vice president of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.’s Technology Research and Development Department has resigned from all positions at the firm for personal reasons, China’s biggest chipmaker said yesterday. The departure of Wu Jingang, who joined the company in 2001, will not adversely affect SMIC’s R&D strengths, th...

July 2, 2021 WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 22 individuals connected to Burma’s military regime. Among the individuals sanctioned today are seven key members of Burma’s military, which continues to repress the pro-democracy movement in the country and use lethal force against the people of Burma, including children and members of ethnic minority groups.  The other 15 individuals are the spouses or adult child...

China Daily, August 15, 2020. Junfu Zhao is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Utah. Zhao can be reached at junfu.zhao [at] utah.edu. The author thanks Rudiger von Arnim, Minqi Li, and Han Cheng for their helpful comments. Following the Donald Trump administration’s publication of its 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy that designated China as a strategic competitor, the tensions between the United States and China have been heightened, encompa...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior days press releases. POTUS Schedule* 9:50 a.m. EDT - The President receives the Presidents Daily Brief | Oval Office 1:30 p.m. EDT - The President signs H.R. 49, To designate the National Pulse Memorial, into law; The First Lady also attends | South Court Auditorium 2:00 p.m. EDT - The Pres...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On Thursday, June 24, the White House announced new actions to combat the use of forced labor in the production of silica-based products, including but not limited to solar-grade polysilicon in the Xinjiang province of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These actions are an important step toward addressing the serious problem of forced labor in the PRC’s supply chain and globally. Actions include: A Withhold Release Order (WRO)...

EU published the TRIPS waiver proposal for coronavirus vaccines at the World Trade Organization WTO with the US and UK, US detailed how it would distribute 55 million of the 80 million from America’s COVID vaccine stockpiles to other countries.

Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): The United States announced a series of actions aimed against forced labour in China's Xinjiang, which is said to have detained more than a million members of ethnic minorities, including Uyghur Muslims.

White House announced that Customs and Border Protection CBP withhold release order on products manufactured using silica-based products produced by Hoshine Silicon Industry Co., Ltd., and its subsidiaries, purportedly the world’s largest metallurgical-grade silicon producers.

BEIJING (Global Times): China on Thursday (June 24) vowed to take all necessary measures to firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies following the latest US crackdown on solar panel material producers based in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which produces around half of the world's polysilicon.

The United States on Wednesday restricted exports to five Chinese companies that it said were implicated in Chinese human rights violations, including large producers of polysilicon for the solar panel industry. The companies were listed over human rights violations and abuses of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, according to a US government filing on Wednesday. The US Department of Commerce said the firms are accepting or utilising forced labour. The companies added to the Commerce Departme...