U.S. Commerce Nominees Vow to Keep Key Tech Out of China’s Hands
- Kendler says she wouldn’t hesitate to use export controls
- Estevez sees no reason to remove Huawei from entity list now
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Two nominees for key trade-policy positions in the U.S. Commerce Department pledged to use their roles to prevent the transfer of sensitive technologies to China and adversarial nations, if appointed.
“I wouldn’t hesitate to impose unilateral controls, if necessary, to keep the United States’s technology out of hands of human-rights abusers,” Thea Kendler, nominated by President Joe Biden to be assistant secretary of commerce for export administration, said at a nomination hearing before the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday. Kendler is a prosecutor and worked on the case against Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou, who was detained in Canada in 2018 and the U.S. wants extradited.