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.

The Taiwanese government has recently ramped up investigations of Chinese high tech companies for alleged illegal poaching of Taiwanese employees, which violates a newly revised law aimed to curb talent flows to mainland companies.

A Chinese company's plan to build a corn-milling plant in North Dakota has led to objections from local residents and members of Congress, and could be subject to a CFIUS review in order to alleviate concerns about national security.