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Export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the machinery needed to fabricate, test, and package semiconductors, are the most decisive instruments for constraining China’s ability to produce advanced and foundational chips. Yet, policy blind spots and the

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IRAN WAR

The United States and Iran traded fresh strikes overnight into t...

Eighteen months into the second Trump administration, many of the president’s directives have been challenged as not just unprecedented, but as illegal, unconstitutional, and 

In recent years, criticism of international law – more precisely, of the law regulating the use of military force – has intensified in parts of the media and political circles. The context of this criticism has varied considerably. During the Ukraine war, the lack of enforcement of international law was lamented; during the Gaza war, the focus on international law was critici...

Two recent Trump Administration actions have sent mixed messages about whether foreign-person employees can keep contributing to frontier AI development at U.S. companies.

On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)