The House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 16 approved several bills that could impose sanctions on China, Russia and the Houthis and tighten export controls on China.
Congressional Republicans are asking the Biden administration to provide more information about its recent withholding of certain offensive weapons to Israel, a decision the lawmakers oppose.
Leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said May 13 they might pursue financial sanctions and other measures against Georgia if the country’s government doesn't withdraw a “foreign agents” bill that would crack down on civil society organizations and independent media outlets.
Citing national security concerns, President Joe Biden issued an order May 13 prohibiting China’s MineOne from continuing to operate a cryptocurrency mine near Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
A bipartisan group of four House members, including Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, introduced a bill last week that they said would help the Bureau of Industry and Security control exports of artificial intelligence systems and other new national security-related technologies.
Four Senate Foreign Relations Committee members introduced a bill May 8 that would require the State and Defense departments to explore adding Japan to the Australia-U.K.-U.S. (AUKUS) security partnership.
The Biden administration, which announced in August 2023 that it would develop restrictions on outbound investment in China (see 2308090066), expects to finalize the new regulations by the end of calendar year 2024, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said May 8.
TikTok asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit May 7 to overturn a recently enacted law that will ban the popular social media application in the United States if China’s ByteDance doesn't sell the app to an entity that isn’t controlled by a foreign adversary.
Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced separate legislative proposals last week that would block the Bureau of Industry and Security’s new interim final rule restricting firearms exports.
Aggressive new U.S. export controls on advanced computing chips and the equipment to manufacture them are having unintended side effects and may be causing more harm than good for Western companies, a Brussels-based think-tank said.