Arms Exports

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the British government made a "shameful decision" when it suspended some arms export licences to Israel.

Britain will immediately suspend 30 of its 350 arms export licenses with Israel because there is a risk such equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law, foreign minister David Lammy said on Monday.

Britain's approval of arms export licences to Israel dropped sharply after the start of the war in Gaza, with the value of permits granted for the sale of military equipment to its ally falling by more than 95% to a 13-year low.

The United States has suspended a shipment of weapons to Israel, including heavy, bunker-busting bombs Israeli forces have used in their war against Hamas militants in Gaza that has killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians in seven months.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said on Thursday it would cancel the spinoff of its Cloud Intelligence arm in light of "the recent expansion of US restrictions on export of advanced computing chips".

Contract manufacturer Dixon Technologies (India) on Wednesday said it is partnering with Xiaomi’s Indian arm to make and export phones for the Chinese firm.

China on Thursday put Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon Technologies on an "unreliable entities list" over arms sales to Taiwan, banning them from imports and exports related to China in its latest sanctions against the U.S. companies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday set out ambitions to more than triple annual defence exports to $5 billion over the next two years, as arms firms flocked to a major air show for a slice of the nation's massive import budget.

Former U.S. Marine pilot Daniel Edmund Duggan faces charges of conspiracy to unlawfully export defence services to China and violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, according to a 2017 indictment unsealed by a U.S. District Court in Washington.

Taiwan said on Friday that semiconductor companies on the island attach "great importance" to complying with the law, as the government signalled the firms are likely to comply with US export controls that target China's chip industry. The island is home to firms like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipma...

North Korea on Wednesday denied it was providing arms to Russia, state media said, weeks after the United States said Moscow was turning to Pyongyang to replenish its stocks depleted by invading Ukraine.

India initiated an anti-dumping probe to investigate imports of optical fibre originating in or exported from China, Indonesia and South Korea. The process, being conducted by commerce ministry's investigation arm Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), is aimed at protecting domestic industry from cheap imports.

Alexander Mikheev, the director general of Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport on Monday said that the first regiment of Russia's anti-aircraft missile system air defence (PRO) S-400 will be delivered to India by the end of 2021.

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla discussed issues related to disarmament, non-proliferation, multilateral export control regimes and space cooperation with US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

India will receive the first batch of the sophisticated S-400 anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile system from Russia in October-December this year, a top official of the Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the British government made a "shameful decision" when it suspended some arms export licences to Israel.

Britain will immediately suspend 30 of its 350 arms export licenses with Israel because there is a risk such equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law, foreign minister David Lammy said on Monday.

Britain's approval of arms export licences to Israel dropped sharply after the start of the war in Gaza, with the value of permits granted for the sale of military equipment to its ally falling by more than 95% to a 13-year low.

The United States has suspended a shipment of weapons to Israel, including heavy, bunker-busting bombs Israeli forces have used in their war against Hamas militants in Gaza that has killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians in seven months.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said on Thursday it would cancel the spinoff of its Cloud Intelligence arm in light of "the recent expansion of US restrictions on export of advanced computing chips".

Contract manufacturer Dixon Technologies (India) on Wednesday said it is partnering with Xiaomi’s Indian arm to make and export phones for the Chinese firm.

China on Thursday put Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon Technologies on an "unreliable entities list" over arms sales to Taiwan, banning them from imports and exports related to China in its latest sanctions against the U.S. companies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday set out ambitions to more than triple annual defence exports to $5 billion over the next two years, as arms firms flocked to a major air show for a slice of the nation's massive import budget.

Former U.S. Marine pilot Daniel Edmund Duggan faces charges of conspiracy to unlawfully export defence services to China and violating the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, according to a 2017 indictment unsealed by a U.S. District Court in Washington.

Taiwan said on Friday that semiconductor companies on the island attach "great importance" to complying with the law, as the government signalled the firms are likely to comply with US export controls that target China's chip industry. The island is home to firms like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipma...

North Korea on Wednesday denied it was providing arms to Russia, state media said, weeks after the United States said Moscow was turning to Pyongyang to replenish its stocks depleted by invading Ukraine.

India initiated an anti-dumping probe to investigate imports of optical fibre originating in or exported from China, Indonesia and South Korea. The process, being conducted by commerce ministry's investigation arm Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), is aimed at protecting domestic industry from cheap imports.

Alexander Mikheev, the director general of Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport on Monday said that the first regiment of Russia's anti-aircraft missile system air defence (PRO) S-400 will be delivered to India by the end of 2021.

Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla discussed issues related to disarmament, non-proliferation, multilateral export control regimes and space cooperation with US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

India will receive the first batch of the sophisticated S-400 anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile system from Russia in October-December this year, a top official of the Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport said on Thursday.