Commerce issues export controls aimed at Chinese intelligence, oil SOE

The Commerce Department on Thursday expanded the scope of its export control regime to capture any support to Chinese and other foreign military-intelligence operations and named a major Chinese oil company to its military end-user list due to its alleged role in China’s aggression in the South China Sea. According to a Commerce announcement, the new controls “prevent U.S. persons from supporting certain foreign military-intelligence services, such as through brokering the sale of foreign-origin items or providing maintenance, repair, or...