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US and G7 sanctions on China in the event of a Taiwan Crisis would focus on the financial sector, individuals, and industry

Gen. Li Shangfu, with deep ties to China’s military space enterprises, is widely expected to become China’s next minister of defense. What do we know about him?

The UK government has proposed new registration requirements for foreign influence activities in the UK as part of its attempts to strengthen the resilience of the UK’s political system...

Phase 2 of the new inspection regime of the register of the Companies Registry ("Register") will come into effect from 24 October 2022, allowing Hong…

The first months of the Biden Administration signaled the new US President's willingness to remain tough on the People's Republic of China in…

In January 2021, President Biden was sworn into office and for the first time in a decade, Democrats assumed control of both chambers of Congress. Notwithstanding these changes, the...

The State Department revealed on April 5 that previously announced US sanctions on Turkey’s military-industrial sector would come into effect on April 7 with the publication of a US Federal Register notice.     US sanctions under the CAATSA law, or the “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” (Public Law 115-44), were initially announced by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on December 14, in response to Turkey’s purchase of the S-400 surfac...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: There’s been a non-stop bombardment of recent export amendments involving China and other “countries of concern” within the last six months. The main driver behind these has been the U.S. Government’s concern about the Chinese national strategy of “military-civil fusion” – using civilian companies to help support Chinese military and intelligence activities. It is believed that U.S. companies that have historically sold ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. OFAC designated seven Russian government officials in response to the August 2020 poisoning and January 2021 imprisonment of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny. According to OFAC, the Novichok nerve agent, which European laboratories identified as responsible for Mr. Navalnys poisoning, has only ever been utilized as a chemical weapon by Russia, and is only accessible to Russian state author...

US slaps sanctions on 7 Russian officials over attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny Navalny, 44, was sickened by the Russian nerve agent Novichok in an attack that the US and others linked to Putins security services. PTI 3 March, 2021 9:39 am IST Text Size: A+ Washington: The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on seven senior Russian officials over the attempted assassination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny using a nerve agent, and his subs...