Annual Review: US Tech Export Controls, Sanctions Against Chinese Entities in 2020

China Law Podcast

The Trump administration aggressively introduced new rules and amended existing rules to clamp down on Chinese access to U.S. technology, primarily through export controls and sanctions, throughout 2020. Wendy Wysong and Ali Burney discuss the impact of different lists compiled by the US government on Chinese companies, the heightened focus on companies linked to the Chinese military, as well as the business community's response.

The China Law Podcast is a weekly podcast exploring China’s business and financial sectors from a legal perspective, hosted by Vincent Chow. This is the first of two special episodes looking back at the year just gone by in two major areas of the law - next week's episode will be on China's arbitration reforms.

Wendy Wysong is Hong Kong managing partner at Steptoe & Johnson, based in Hong Kong and Washington, D.C. She is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement in the Department of Commerce who previously represented Chinese telecom giant ZTE in their five-year multi-agency investigation in the U.S.

Ali Burney is a partner at Steptoe & Johnson in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience in economic sanctions and export controls, having worked previously in Washington, D.C. at the Office of Foreign Assets Control in the Department of Treasury.