Post-COVID-19 Sanctions Policies

... China (to put this into perspective, there are at least three such programmes for Russia). The number of Chinese individuals and companies on the US sanctions regulators’ lists remains low [ xxxi ]. Nevertheless, more trouble is in the offing for China. First, Chinese telecom companies were the first to come under pressure. They were hit by secondary US sanctions for delivering products containing US parts to Iran. That was the case with ZTE, which ended up with huge fines that were paid to US regulators and restrictions on future operations [ xxxii ]. The Huawei case was even more high-profile. It also began with accusations of supplies to Iran and could ...