The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing last week on "Evaluating U.S.-China Policy in the Era of Strategic Competition," with one of the issues discussed being how to counter Chinese economic coercion.

A bipartisan duo of U.S. Senators introduced legislation that is designed to support allies in the face of economic coercion, as well as target adversaries who engage in such practices, with Chinese coercion an implicit focus of the measure.

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would prohibit sales of oil from the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve to entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party, and similar legislation has now been introduced in the Senate.

In late January, Congressman Thomas Tiffany (R-WI) introduced a resolution that "calls on the President to abandon the One China policy in favor of one that recognizes Taiwan as an independent country that is not a part of China." The resolution also "urges the President to bolster

A group of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives has put forward a new effort to restrict farmland purchases associated with the Chinese government, following a number of other similar legislative efforts.

Two Republican Congressmen have introduced legislation that would revoke China's permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status. This legislation, if enacted, would lead to annual reviews, linked to human rights concerns, of U.S. tariffs on China.

There have been a number of recent developments on actions by the U.S. federal government related to TikTok, including newly introduced legislation to ban it nationwide, a new House Committee scrutinizing TikTok, and upcoming testimony before a House committee by TikTok's CEO.