Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), the top ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, recently spoke about a number of issues related to export controls and investment screening, with a focus on China.

A key Republican Congressman is pushing back against demands from some leading Democratic members of Congress for the Biden administration to pursue executive action on outbound investment screening regulation, and instead is arguing that the administration should work with Congress on this issue.

At an event last Friday, a White House official offered some comments on the CHIPS Act and the outbound investment screening mechanism that has been in the news recently, both of which aim at maintaining U.S. technological advantages over China. The goal is to maintain an "absolute advantage&

The discussion of U.S. legislative or executive action on outbound investment screening, with a focus on American investments in China, is heating up.

In a letter sent to several Biden administration officials, Representative Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) led a group of 51 Republicans in raising concerns over "the recent acquisition of farmland near a U.S. military installation by a Chinese-based manufacturer with close links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."

Last week, the Biden administration announced that a U.S. Commerce Department investigation "found that [Neodymium-iron-boron] magnet imports threaten national security," and that President Biden agreed with that determination. The Biden administration said it would take a number of actions to address the threat, but tariffs and quotas

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has expanded its list of communications equipment and services that pose a threat to national security to include equipment and services from two additional Chinese companies.