Last week, a U.S. regulator announced that it has secured access to the audit records of Chinese firms, averting an imminent delisting crisis for over two hundred Chinese companies.

The U.S. government added Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd. (YMTC) and more than 30 other companies to the Entity List, making it nearly impossible for these companies to have access to U.S. technology and products governed under the export control regime.

The push by U.S. state governments to ban or restrict TikTok use by government employees continues, with Utah, Alabama, and New York now moving forward with efforts in this area.

Earlier this week, we wrote about a South Dakota ban on the use of TikTok by state employees, and efforts to push for similar actions in Wisconsin. Maryland, South Carolina, and Texas are now taking action on this issue as well.

While most U.S. government efforts to restrict or ban the use of social media app TikTok are at the federal level, there is a push for individual U.S. states to take action as well. Six Republican members of Congress from Wisconsin have called on the Wisconsin governor to

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took action last week to further crack down on the use of Chinese-tied telecoms equipment in American communications networks, issuing new rules that will cover the products of five well-known Chinese companies.

Under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed into law this year, tax credits are available for purchases of electric vehicles, but they are subject to various conditions related to the place of assembly of the product and the national origin of its components. Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD