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A U.S. official said Tuesday that an “unacceptable number” of U.S. weapons parts were in Russian hands.
“The proportion of U.S. and allied branded components in Russian battlefield weapons is shockingly high and unacceptable,” said Daleep Singh, U.S. deputy national security adviser for international economics.
Speaking at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, on May 28, Singh called on U.S. tech companies to be more careful about exports. Bloomberg.
“I want to urgently call for corporate accountability,” Singh said.
“Let’s use our creativity and our resources to know our customers, know their customers, and know our end users,” he added. “Let’s make sure American companies don’t become unwitting cogs in the arsenal of a Russian authoritarian regime.”
The 48-year-old Harvard and MIT graduate is widely seen as the architect of the economic sanctions against Russia that the Biden administration imposed after Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Shin Left the White House For the private sector in February 2022 Named Chief Global Economist for PGIM Fixed Income In June 2022 he Returning to the Biden Administration In February of this year.
Singh’s remarks on Tuesday highlighted the difficulties the United States faces in restricting the flow of supplies to Russia.
According to the survey, Nikkei Asia Last year, Russia managed to acquire hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of US-made semiconductors despite sanctions in place, with most of the goods passing through Hong Kong and China, according to the media.
“It took decades to build a financial sanctions framework after 9/11. We have to do it at lightning speed for technology and commodities companies,” Singh said on Tuesday.
State Department representatives did not immediately respond to BI’s request for comment sent outside regular working hours.