But the measures also reflect the way national security concerns have intruded into economic policy.
The growing intersection of economic policy and national security has many roots.
“The trend is everything is a national security issue,” says Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at Tufts University.
In an interview with the Financial Times, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US was not the only country that was increasingly linking economic and national security.
“The problem becomes if everything is a national security issue, nothing is a national security priority,” says Drezner.

How national security has transformed economic policy