After CFIUS approved a property purchase related to a Chinese company starting a wind farm project near an Air Force training base, the state of Texas took action that prohibited certain renewable energy investments by the company. The Chinese company is now challenging the Texas actions as unconstitutional.

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which is the Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would "expand CFIUS’s jurisdiction over certain transactions by foreign persons involving real estate in the United States."

Last week, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) "launched an inquiry" into Chinese-owned Tutor.com "amid concerns that its users’ sensitive data could be used and exploited by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."

Earlier this week, the Biden administration blocked a Chinese-linked investment in a cryptocurrency mining facility located close to a U.S. air force base in Wyoming.

A number of Kansas and Missouri politicians have raised concerns about a proposed Chinese investment in a U.S. manufacturing facility that makes products used in EV batteries.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), U.S. Representative John Moolenaar (R-MI), and several other House Republicans from Michigan and Illinois sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, "urging the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review the ownership of Gotion, Inc.

At a U.S. House of Representatives hearing yesterday on "Oversight of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Other Efforts to Strengthen National Security in the United States," Congressman Bill Huizenga (R-MI) had two exchanges with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department Paul