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A shipment of over a quarter million AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia has been blocked from leaving the European Union, in the first use of an export control system instituted by the bloc to make sure big pharma companies would respect their contracts.
existing u.s. export control system. i ask you this. reporter a republican. republicans tend to not like to add bureaucracies or overwork the existing bureaucracy. how do you respond to both criticisms from ibm and ge? clearly ne wathey want the s quo, it worked economically for them and transactions they have with china. but we have to look at this from a national security view. this is a bipartisan bill. it is laser focused on military application. we re not looking at overall trade concerns or issues. i had the largest hog processing plant in the world in my district, 5,000 people are employed, smithfield, owned by china. that s not a concern to cfius or to us. what is a concern is access china has to american companies to gain this proprietary technology. we have to protect it. president xi made it clear their
threats, and retired colonel rick. the biggest question is who is helping the north koreans? u.n. experts looked at rocket parts from a satellite launched by pyongyang. they found many key components were foreign made. they say this demonstrates high-end foreign sourced components. is beijing or unwilling to stop those sales? if it can t stop the sale of missile parts, can they actually cut off fuel or are they willing to cut off fuel to north korea? thanks, john. i think it s more unable than willing. they re two parts of the same coin. there s a vast array of international businesses, front companies, many are chinese, but they re not only chinese. the north koreans have shown they re very deft at exploiting gaps in the international sanction system, in the export control system. so i wouldn t lay the blame at