A new MERICS piece by analysts Rebecca Arcesati and Francesca Ghiretti discusses how the Italian government has used its existing power for foreign investment screening to block certain transactions with a China connection, and also notes that it may establish "a new unit within the cabinet of the prime

A few days after a letter by some Republican Senators to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen regarding the Biden Administration’s "delayed plan to combat national security risks associated with TikTok," a different group of Republican Senators has now written to TikTok with questions about the company's

The U.S. Commerce Department has added a number of Chinese (and other) companies to its Entity List, with one of the reasons being the support provided by certain companies "to Russia’s military and/or defense industrial base."

Five U.S. Senators have introduced bipartisan legislation "to create new protections against Americans’ sensitive personal information being sold or transferred to high-risk foreign countries," a category which is certain to include China.

Officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) recently said that the agency will launch a cybersecurity review on China's largest online academic database CNKI.

Six Republican Senators sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen regarding the Biden Administration’s "delayed plan to combat national security risks associated with TikTok, a social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance."

Yesterday, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a Temporary Denial Order (TDO) suspending the export privileges of three U.S.-based companies for 180 days for exporting controlled items to China without authorization.