In the $768 billion [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/defense-spending-bill.html] U.S. defense spending bill that Congress recently passed (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, H.R.4350 [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4350]), there is a provision that prohibits the

Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and Todd Young (R-IN) wrote to [https://www.carper.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/10/carper-young-letter-seeks-to-protect-medical-device-jobs-and-hold-china-accountable] U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai "express[ing] concern with recent action by China related to the procurement of medical devices." The

Recently, the Chinese Ministry of Finance issued a document titled “Notice on the Implementation of Relevant Policies regarding Equal Treatment for Domestic and Foreign-invested Enterprises in Government Procurement Activities [http://gks.mof.gov.cn/guizhangzhidu/202110/t20211020_3759590.htm] (link in Chinese).” In principle, the notice states that all products