Last week, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced legislation intended to "protect America from the threat of rare-earth element supply disruptions, encourage domestic production of those elements, and reduce our reliance on China."

Republican Congressman Randy Weber of Texas has introduced H.R. 6391, the U.S. Leadership in Space Act of 2021. The legislation has several sections that specifically address competition with China in matters related to outer space.

As part of the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 (the annual U.S. defense spending bill), which became law on December 20, 2019, there was a provision designed to restrict Chinese-owned companies from selling rail cars or buses to be used in U.S. transit. As Roll

In the $768 billion [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/defense-spending-bill.html] U.S. defense spending bill that Congress recently passed (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, H.R.4350 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350]), there is a provision that prohibits the

Having previously passed slightly different versions of legislation designed to address forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (see here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/senate-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-bill/] and here [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/u-s-house-of-representatives-passes-uyghur-forced-labor-bill/] ), the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have now reached a compromise and drafted legislation that

In a 428-1 vote yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed [https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021412?BillNum=H.R.1155] the "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1155/text]," which is intended to "[e]nsur[e] that goods made

On December 2, U.S. Representatives Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Bill Johnson (R-OH) introduced legislation, H.R.6121 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6121?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22terri+sewell%22%2C%22terri%22%2C%22sewell%22%5D%7D&s=3&r=1] , called