As the West watches Xi-Putin meetings, China touts crackdown on military goods to Russia

It remains unclear how broadly China’s latest export controls for dual-use products will be implemented. Russia “can easily, and likely will be exempted from China’s export controls,” said Sari Arho Havren, an associate fellow at Royal United Services Institute covering China’s foreign policy. “I would take a step back and see what will follow.” China’s new rules still keeps the door open on dual-use products. “These export control measures are not complete export bans,” China’s commerce and justice ministries said in an explanatory note on Sunday, following the rules’ release. That’s according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese.