The most recent and prominent United States (US) attempt to limit cooperation with Chinese life science businesses has stalled, but is hardly dead. Current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said he intends to have the BIOSECURE Act signed into law before the end of 2024.[1] Irrespective of the impasse,...
Tag: espionage
March 25, 2024
The United States (U.S.) government (USG) has long wanted to enervate TikTok, which hosts short-form videos and whose owner is China’s ByteDance. USG and subnational efforts have come in the form of Presidential Executive Orders, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) divestiture orders, proposed legislation in the...
In January 2024, Congressman Mike Gallagher, the Chair of the United States (US) House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, introduced the “Biosecure Act,” which prohibits the US government (USG) from “procuring or obtaining biotechnology equipment or services produced or provided by a biotechnology company of concern,” participating in a...
May 27, 2019
China’s Cyberspace Administration releases draft document stating, “operators of the country’s critical information infrastructure…will be required to take into account national security risk when purchasing foreign products and services.” A recent European Union (EU) Chamber of Commerce in China survey suggests the problem of forced technology transfers in China has…
