The final presidential campaign debate was uneventful. It appears by design and both sides wanted it that way. I wanted to hear more about Libya, the war on terrorism (I guess I should not be using that phrase anymore that anymore), U.S.-China relations, trade in the Americas, and a whole host of other global issues. [...]
A key national security committee of the US Congress published a bipartisan report yesterday that raises various public policy and legal questions related to Chinese economic activity in the US.
The target companies argue the report is an exercise in protectionism. The government says it is focused national security. Analyzing solely the responses from both [...]
While his point his way off that the “U.S. faces no serious security threats,” former Senator Dodd staffer Michael Cohen’s observation that “the push for bipartisan consensus in foreign policy is a dumb idea” is spot on.
Comity may make for good foreign affairs, but it makes for bad national politics. At times of great national [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports today that Chinese computer hackers may have penetrated the U.S. Chamber of Commerce computer system as long as a year ago.
“What was unusual about it was that this was clearly somebody very sophisticated, who knew exactly who we are and who targeted specific people and used sophisticated tools to [...]
If you’re a Republican who follows the inner happenings of our party, then former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s somewhat new immigration stance with regards to illegal aliens may have been the highlight of the GOP national security debate.
At times, he almost he appeared presidential. He respected his colleagues and continued to, wisely, treat Ron [...]
Yesterday U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced a new license exception to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) that “authorizes the export, reexport, and transfer (in- country) of specified items to destinations that pose relatively low risk that those items will be used for a purpose that license requirements are designed to prevent.”
“This [...]
In less than two weeks Members of Congress will, finally, join in on the export control reform dialogue that the Obama Administration initiated in August 2009. The Export Control Reform Initiative (ECR Initiative) builds upon an inter-agency review process and is supposed “to enhance U.S. national security and strengthen the United States’ ability to counter threats [...]
Well, it may have not been the Chinese Government that was caught, but it might as well have been.
According to the Department of Justice, two Chinese nationals were indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia for attempting to obtain radiation-hardened microchips in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
A warning to the reader. The following post is one of those that my friends will look at me and say, what? English my friend, English. In other words, Beltway gobbledygook.
If you have been following the Obama Administration’s export control reform process, you are familiar with the proposed four reform singularities:
one export control [...]
Having skimmed most of the recent WikiLeaks data dump, one thing is clear, the federal government needs a better method of controlling access to these sensitive documents. While there are many times to rake Foggy Bottom over the coals, this is not one of them; at least not yet.
Diplomacy is very serious business and while [...]
Neena Shenai pens in the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) National Security Outlook that the “Obama administration must prove its national security bona fides in order to achieve political buy in from the national security community and Congress for its proposed export control reforms.” Well worth a read. Read the article, here.
After several weeks of negotiations, it seems as if a new round of Iran sanctions is one step closer to becoming law. This afternoon House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Senate Banking Committee Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) issued a joint statement that an agreement had been reached on new measures targeting Iran’s [...]
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