The Commerce Department approved sales of sensitive U.S. technology to China worth $23 billion during a six-month period last year, despite an announced policy by the Biden administration to prevent American know-how from being used to bolster the Chinese military.
Alan F. Estevez, Commerce undersecretary at the Bureau of Industry and Security , told a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on dealing with Chinese Communist Party “aggression” that his agency is “doing everything” to prevent U.S. technology from helping the Chinese military and intelligence and security services.
The department in 2020 and 2021 approved some $60 billion worth of exports to Huawei Technologies, the Chinese-based company U.S. officials say has links to China’s intelligence services, and the Chinese computer chip manufacturer SMIC, which was allowed to purchase $40 billion in sensitive U.S. goods during the same period, the Texas Republican said.“Both of these companies are military companies for the [Chinese Communist Party], and both are listed on the entities list,” Mr. McCaul said.
Further exports licenses to China are “under recessment” — meaning suspension, the Commerce official added. “We are currently in the middle of a struggle for the global balance of power – and the primary battleground is technology leadership,” Mr. McCaul said, adding that just 8% percent of export licenses on Chinese blacklisted companies were denied.
Both Mr. Kritenbrink and Mr. Estevez said the administration opposes a policy of “decoupling” economically from China, as some critics of the communist government have called for. Two-way trade between the two countries hit a record $690 billion in 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, and such U.S. companies as Apple, Tesla and General Motors remain heavily invested in the Chinese domestic market.
Government agencies discuss whether sanctioning them by placement on the blacklist will achieve policy goals or harm U.S. interests of allies, he said. American investors, the lawmaker said, are unwittingly financing sanctioned Chinese companies “and that’s a problem we need to fix,” he said. “We’re committed to not just arms sales to help Taiwan grow its deterrent capability, but also diplomatically with allies, partners and friends to support and enhance peace and stability,” he said.
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