U.S.–China Military and Export Controls

An Australian federal judge has dismissed an appeal by Daniel Duggan, an ex-U.S. Marine pilot, leaving in place a 2024 extradition order that will see him surrendered to the United States to face charges that he illegally trained Chinese military aviators. Federal Court Justice James Stellios found no jurisdictional error in the original decision signed by then-Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, and Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has said Duggan will remain in extradition custody while his lawyers consider further legal challenges and political avenues to reverse the order. Duggan, who renounced U.S. citizenship when he became an Australian in 2012, has been held in maximum-security prisons since his 2022 arrest at a supermarket near his New South Wales home.