Five U.S. Senators have introduced bipartisan legislation "to create new protections against Americans’ sensitive personal information being sold or transferred to high-risk foreign countries," a category which is certain to include China.

Officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) recently said that the agency will launch a cybersecurity review on China's largest online academic database CNKI.

Six Republican Senators sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen regarding the Biden Administration’s "delayed plan to combat national security risks associated with TikTok, a social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance."

China's Committee on technical standards recently issued a draft standard on privacy agreements and is now soliciting public comments until July 25.

Recently, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a list of 84 apps that have been identified as in violation of Chinese laws and regulations on users' rights and requested them to fix problems within the next week.

As we reported in January, Japan and the U.S. put China's cybersecurity measures on the agenda of a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Services in October 2021. The same two countries put these measures on the agenda at the March 2022 meeting

China's securities regulator is currently soliciting public comments on a recently issued draft of measures on cybersecurity issues in the securities and futures sector. The comments are due by May 29.