Nine Republican lawmakers, including several congressional committee chairs, sent a letter this week urging US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to add more than a dozen Chinese technology firms to the Pentagon’s list of companies alleged to have links to the Chinese military. The letter, released on Friday after US President Donald Trump signed a US$900…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a sweeping defence bill that would restrict US outbound investment in Chinese technology and curb federal contracts with Chinese biotechnology companies, amid an uneasy trade truce between Washington and Beijing. The bill, known as the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), cleared both the House of Representatives and Senate…
Hong Kong authorities have hit back at US politicians’ “absurd and fact-twisting” allegations over the health of former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and their call for his unconditional release from prison. A spokesman for the Hong Kong government described the resolution introduced in the United States House of Representatives as an attempt to pressure…
By Ernest Scheyder and Pratima Desai (Reuters) -China for decades has sought to manipulate global critical minerals prices, using its control as an economic weapon to expand its manufacturing sector and its geopolitical influence, a U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Wednesday. The allegations, contained in a 50-page report from the bipartisan U.S. House…
The decision to suspend new port fees on Chinese-built, owned, or operated vessels starting on Monday has drawn sharp criticism from Democrats, who say it undercuts US President Donald Trump’s claims of being tough on China. They are not alone in pushing back. While shippers see the move easing costs and boosting trade, labour unions…
The administration of US President Donald Trump on Tuesday tightened the rules on the importation, marketing and sales of new Chinese telecoms gear in the United States, a move set to haunt bilateral relations ahead of the summit of the top leaders later this week. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to block new…
A bipartisan group of American lawmakers is pushing for a “dramatic” expansion of export controls on chip manufacturing equipment to China and alignment from US allies in restrictions, according to a report released on Tuesday. Their efforts come amid concern that US President Donald Trump is compromising national security in pursuit of a trade deal…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers and activists across the political spectrum called on American tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for Congress to examine the issue after The Associated Press reported that U.S. technology had played a far greater role than previously known in enabling human rights abuses by Beijing. Republican…
Republicans in the US House of Representatives are escalating their targeting of US-China joint institutes and degree programmes, identifying dozens of such partnerships as “high-risk” for the first time in a report released on Friday. In a 39-page report, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the House Committee on Education and…
A US House of Representatives committee is taking aim at the Department of Defence for funding hundreds of projects with Chinese universities and institutes linked to the country’s defence industry, in the latest sign of Washington’s unease over research ties that could benefit Beijing’s military modernisation. The 79-page report, released by Republicans on the House…