Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced several actions related to the activities of Chinese companies in Florida, including on data practices and land purchases.

A group of Republican members of Congress have raised concerns that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "is potentially using taxpayer dollars to purchase solar panels and components from China ... to rebuild the U.S. Virgin Islands’ (USVI) energy grid."

The U.S. Justice Department has reached a settlement in a case involving alleged breaches of the Buy American Act, with Chinese manufactured goods used instead of American ones.

China’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) has issued proposed revisions to its Government Procurement Law (GPL) that extend the provisions to some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and could pave the way for joining international agreements.

Last week, the UK Parliament had separate discussions of two big issues related to China trade, forced labor and security, in which members of Parliament raised concerns and called for action.

The EU's new International Procurement Instrument (IPI) was signed on June 23, 2022 and published on June 30, 2022. It enters into force on August 29, 2022. In general terms, the IPI "introduces measures limiting non-EU companies’ access to the open EU public procurement market if

Last month, we wrote about a provision in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 designed to restrict Chinese-owned companies from selling rail cars or buses to be used in U.S. transit. While doing further research on the example we provided of electric bus purchases in