Three separate reports this week turn out to be about the same thing: who controls the key links in supply chains for computer chips and weapons.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency says Iran has stepped up efforts to get missile technology from within Germany, even though sanctions ban this.
ChangXin Memory Technologies, a major Chinese maker of memory chips, is suing the US Department of Defense in an American court over being placed on a Pentagon list of alleged Chinese military companies.
Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine people, including someone who works for the chipmaker Nvidia, with illegally sending AI servers (powerful computers built for artificial intelligence) using Nvidia chips to China.
Austrian investigators say they dismantled a network that sent Western-made components to Russia for use in cruise missiles and fighter jets, dodging European Union sanctions.
China announced new measures against the United States, including putting American firms on a trade blacklist and tightening controls on drone exports.
Beijing hit 14 EU entities with export controls and called it payback for Europe's newest Russia sanctions — opening a second, major-power front in the sanctions war, though the details that decide whether it bites remain undisclosed.
For fifty years, powerful states kept dangerous technology behind a lock and rationed access as leverage. This week showed that reflex failing on three fronts at once — and what is replacing it.