At a U.S. Senate hearing yesterday, several Senators raised concerns about Chinese purchases of U.S. farmland, and proposed expanding the role of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in reviewing these transactions.

Last week, two Democratic Florida state legislators announced that they had introduced legislation that would "block the purchase or acquisition of real property by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and any related third party, in locations close to military bases and locations deemed to be strategic assets in the

As the Biden administration and Congress are debating and forming new China-related policies at the federal level, including policies on outbound investment to China and on government procurement, the stances of individual states on trade and investment with China are playing a bigger role these days and deserve greater attention.

Members of Congress in both the House and the Senate have introduced legislation to block China and other adversaries from purchasing land near U.S. military bases.

The year-long saga over a Chinese investment in Grand Forks, North Dakota has come to an end, as the Grand Forks City Council has rejected the Chinese company's land purchase there.

A Republican Senator is calling for a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review of the licensing agreement between Ford Motor Company and Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) that was signed earlier this week.

After Virginia abandoned its efforts to lure an investment by Ford to open a battery plant that would have licensed technology from Chinese company CATL, Michigan announced that it had reached an incentive agreement with Ford that would bring the factory there.