President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated Alan Estevez, a former Pentagon official, to be the U.S. Commerce Department’s undersecretary for industry and security, a key post in the U.S.-China tech battle.
The post in the once-obscure Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) gained attention in recent years as Washington has escalated its use of export controls to keep China from obtaining U.S. technology.
During the Trump administration, the bureau restricted U.S. sales to China-based Huawei Technologies. This hobbled the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker and gave BIS a prominent role in efforts to limit Chinese companies in telecomm…
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