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The United Kingdom announced substantial amendments to its Syria sanctions regime, signaling a strategic shift in support of Syria’s post-Assad reconstruction. The updated regulations lift sanctions on 12 Syrian entities and remove restrictions in select sectors, including financial services and energy production.
Seven Republican senators have sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick urging the Trump administration to withdraw the Biden-era Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Rule (AIDR). The senators argue that the rule, which imposes tiered restrictions on global access to U.S. AI technology, threatens American innovation and global competitiveness while failing to adequately counter China’s ambitions.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, has called on the Department of Commerce to immediately block exports of Nvidia’s H20 and other advanced AI chips to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), citing national security concerns and reports of undue influence in the administration’s export control decisions.
President Trump Wednesday signed a sweeping executive order aimed at overhauling the U.S. foreign defense sales system, seeking to reduce delays and regulatory barriers in the sale of military equipment to international partners. The directive—“Reforming Foreign Defense Sales to Improve Speed and Accountability”—initiates a broad set of reforms to the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) processes, with the stated aim of improving delivery predictability, enhancing allied burden-sharing, and invigorating the domestic defense industrial base.
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