Untangling and Disrupting China-Russia Sanctions Circumvention Networks

The Mission Question

An intelligence agency is working to untangle the complex alternative networks and sprawling sanctions circumvention apparatus that bypass global trade restrictions to sustain Russia’s military-industrial complex.

What You Need to Know

How are China and Russia leveraging new logistics hubs, trade routes, and alternative financial channels to sustain trade flows, circumvent sanctions, and route dual-use goods and commodities?  Where has Chinese investment filled gaps left by Western companies, and how does this undermine Western sanctions effectiveness?

How Janes Delivers

Janes maps Chinese and Russian entities, logistics networks, and cross-border activity across sectors and jurisdictions, revealing investments and relationships, sanctions exposure, ownership structures, intermediary actors, and connections that enable circumvention activity and sustain restricted trade flows.

Outcome

The intelligence agency can map evasion networks, identify illicit actors, assess sanctions effectiveness, and support enforcement actions while improving supply-chain tracing and coordinated efforts to disrupt third-country intermediaries and alternative channels sustaining Russia’s economy.