At a WTO meeting of the Council for Trade in Services on May 16, 2022, several trade issues involving China that had been raised previously were on the agenda again.

An acquisition of a U.S./UK pharmaceutical company by a company with China ties is being reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and its UK counterpart.

Last week, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asking that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) "conduct an expedited review of Fufeng Group’s recent purchase of land in

Five Republican Senators are calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate two stock trading platforms because of concerns about their data sharing practices and potential access by the CCP.

In a recent TV interview, Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) weighed in on the continuing controversy over a planned investment by a Chinese company in North Dakota.

Several Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives have introduced legislation to prohibit federal government funds from going to blacklisted Chinese companies.

Last week, the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy published a notice of final order that, based on national security concerns, blocked a Chinese company from licensing vision sensing technology from a UK university.