Two Republicans asked the Biden administration July 11 to provide a classified briefing on Microsoft’s new partnership with Group 42 Holding Ltd. (G42), a United Arab Emirates-based artificial intelligence company with ties to China.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved several export control and sanction bills July 10, including a resolution that would block the Bureau of Industry and Security’s new interim final rule restricting firearms exports (see 2406100048).
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., urged the Commerce Department July 8 to increase its efforts to stem the flow of advanced computing chips to China.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee this week plans to mark up a newly unveiled bill that would sanction foreign persons engaged in piracy.
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific Chairwoman Rep. Young Kim, R-Calif., and House Select Committee on China Chairman Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., introduced a bill July 2 that would require the Commerce Department to identify foreign adversary entities that use high-tech American intellectual property without a license.
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., introduced a bill last week that could strengthen sanctions against several sources of funding for Myanmar's military.
Two House members from Illinois urged the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. last week to review a Chinese firm’s recently announced acquisition of a grain terminal in Cahokia, Illinois.
A bill introduced last week by Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., and other Republicans would return China’s Institute of Forensic Science to the Commerce Department's Entity List. The agency removed the institute last year (see 2311160003).
The chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere told a State Department official last week that she’s concerned the Biden administration plans to remove Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list.
The House last week approved an amendment to the FY 2025 State Department, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Bill that would direct $1 million to implementing the Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum (SHIP) Act, a new law for sanctioning Iranian oil.