GOP Pushes Stricter China Export Control, Cites Lax Enforcement

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is pushing for stricter enforcement of export controls on sensitive technologies that the Chinese military could access.
In a Jan. 13 letter (pdf) to the U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, McCaul further requested licensing data that the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry Security (BIS) had granted to China.
The appeal resurged after the BIS had failed to provide requested documents to the committee in response to the similar plea issued more than two years ago, the letter stated.
The lawmaker noted that the agency had only “produced one small tranche of documents to date in May 2021—more than six months after the initial request—and provided nothing further since then.”…}