Steve Coonen

Steve Coonen is a retired U.S. Army Foreign Affairs Officer and served as the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Senior Foreign Affairs Advisor on U.S. exports of controlled technology to the People’s Republic of China. He resigned in protest over DoD’s repeated failures to defend U.S. national security priorities in the transfer of militarily useful technologies to China.

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U.S. Technologies and the Emboldening of China

Rather than restricting access to militarily useful technologies, U.S. export control officials and their failed policies risk emboldening Beijing.