The U.S. Geological Survey at the Department of the Interior (DOI) issued the 2021 Draft List of Critical Minerals [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/09/2021-24488/2021-draft-list-of-critical-minerals] today. The list is designed to address the concern that the United States is heavily dependent on imports of certain

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3919/actions] similar legislation on October 20, yesterday the Senate passed its own version [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1790/text] of a law designed to tighten existing restrictions on products from companies

On October 26, the FCC revoked [https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-revokes-china-telecom-americas-telecom-services-authority] the license for the state-owned China Telecom Corp.’s U.S. business China Telecom Americas to provide domestic interstate and international telecommunications services in the United States. Decisions on licenses for additional Chinese telecom companies, such as China

Ho Pui-shan (Louise Ho) became Hong Kong’s new Commissioner of Customs and Excise on October 21. During the press conference [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAVjSzsTXVo] (link in Cantonese) with media after taking the position, she mentioned combatting smuggling as one of the tasks of her agency, including

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives decided to disclose aggregated data from the Commerce Department on licensing decisions for possible sales to Chinese telecoms company Huawei and semiconductor company SMIC for the six month period from November 2020 to April 2021. These companies are on

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) has introduced the Exposing China’s Belt and Road Investment in America Act of 2021 [https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/7/7/7761c7c8-1f5b-4b82-b32e-59d86cee0f9a/9C39928D30260C3333F460C163265018.ros21g09.pdf] , which he said [https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2021/10/kennedy-introduces-bill-to-increase-scrutiny-over-chinese-investments-on-u-s-soil] is designed "to review

Yesterday, Republican FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called for adding DJI, a Chinese drone company, to the FCC’s Covered List [https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist], which would prohibit federal money from being used to purchase its equipment. This list identifies "communications equipment and services ... that are deemed to