The Republican-led China Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter [https://mcusercontent.com/723925654e4ab8fdea83f0a9c/files/cabefc23-b371-c24c-1efa-2f85711f7916/CTF_Letter_to_Sec._Raimondo_on_Export_Control_Actions.pdf] to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo calling for a crack down on sharing critical U.S. technology with China, and

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today on the Nominations of Maria Pagan to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative (Geneva Office) and Christopher Wilson to be USTR's Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator (as well as Brent Neiman to be Deputy Under Secretary of the

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

Yesterday, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), who are all part of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) [https://www.cecc.gov/], sent a letter [https://www.rubio.senate.gov//public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=4CCECC26-AC84-49EE-85F6-64FE12376347]

At the confirmation hearing [https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/nominations_-immediately-following-the-business-meeting-102021] yesterday for the Biden administration's nominee for Ambassador to China, long-time diplomat Nicholas Burns [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Nicholas_Burns], trade issues came up several times. Burns mentioned these issues in his opening statement,

Following up on questions he asked Alan Estevez -- the Biden administration's nominee for Under Secretary for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce -- about general export control policies relating to China, the Entity List, and the companies Huawei and Honor during the nomination

Thirteen Republican members of the House of Representatives -- a list of these members is included at the end of this piece -- sent a letter [https://crawford.house.gov/uploadedfiles/scan.pdf] to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai expressing concern about "the growing influence and intensified engagement