Two key members of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen with recommendations for the implementation of the Biden Administration's August Executive Order on outbound American investment.

At a Washington International Trade Association event last week on "Trade and National Security: China and Outbound Investment in the Crosshairs," Clete Willems, the Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics and Deputy NEC Director during the Trump administration, provided a useful overview of the current discussion

Yesterday, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China held a hearing on "How Forced Labor in China Taints America’s Seafood Supply Chain," with various witnesses testifying about different aspects of the issue.

A bipartisan group of members of Congress has written a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator, "urging him to take immediate action against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) Chinese fishing fleets that operate globally," including consultations and, possibly, "corrective action."

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. Senate, led by Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), yesterday, where the two sides talked about cooperation and specific issues of concern.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), U.S. Representative John Moolenaar (R-MI), and several other House Republicans from Michigan and Illinois sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, "urging the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review the ownership of Gotion, Inc.

In reaction to recent reports of a new Huawei smartphone with advanced capabilities, member of Congress are pushing the U.S. Commerce Department to tighten semiconductor export controls even further.