2023 Issue 5

This week’s issue includes decisions by the Dutch and the Japanese to join the United States in cutting off advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment; an appeal to Secretary Blinken by the Co-Chair of the Congressional Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking to hold the PRC accountable for their role in exporting opioid precursors to drug cartels in Mexico; and a decision by a major Canadian pension fund to halt private asset investment in the PRC due to geopolitical tensions.