The U.S. Commerce Department deflected a Congressional committee’s concerns that it is doing an insufficient job stopping U.S.-made technology from playing a role in oppressive policing in China.
The department, in a letter from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, also said DNA sequencers used by Chinese police and made by Waltham, Mass.-based Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. were not subject to U.S. licensing rules that control the sale of crime-busting equipment to foreign countries.
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