A significant number of the economic sanctions that the United States and European Union have imposed on Russia involve not just restrictions on exports of advanced and dual-use technologies, but also technology aimed at purely civilian use.
And, in contrast to restrictions on Russia’s financial and energy sectors that are also painful for the West, the blockade on technology exports might remain in force for decades.
An example is the restrictions that the U.S. and Europe placed on military technology exports to China in 1989 in response to events on Tiananmen Square. Those restrictions remain in place today, even though the events …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
