Bipartisan Senate Group Wants Tougher US Export Controls on China’s Hong Kong Exploitation

Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on April 10, 2019. Erin Scott/Reuters

WASHINGTON—Ten senators—five Republicans and five Democrats—asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to conduct an urgent review of U.S. export controls to block China’s use of Hong Kong’s special legal status to steal sensitive technology.

“China is on a drive to displace its rivals and become the global leader in a number of strategic technologies,” the senators wrote in the Sept. 10 letter to the two secretaries.