US prosecutor Thea Kendler, a lawyer on the criminal case against China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and its Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, will be nominated for a Commerce Department post vital to controlling exports to China, the White House said on Wednesday. Kendler, a lawyer in the Justice Department’s national security division, will be nominated as assistant secretary for export administration at the Commerce Department. The nomination requires confirmation by the Senate. Kendler is expected to work under Alan Estevez , a former Pentagon official, who was nominated on July 13 to be the Commerce Department’s undersecretary for industry and…