President Joseph R. Biden issued an Executive Order restricting certain U.S. investments in "covered national security technologies and products" in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macau.
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President Joseph R. Biden signed an Executive Order providing guidance to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States on maintaining a robust foreign investment review process to identify and address potential national security risks.
The Courts of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit and the D.C. Circuit separately granted the Biden administration's motions to hold in abeyance the government's appeals of lower court injunctions of President Donald Trump's Executive Orders on WeChat and TikTok.
President Trump issued an Executive Order directing ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese-owned parent company of social networking application TikTok, to divest its U.S. assets within 90 days.
In an Executive Order, President Trump blocked a Chinese technology company's acquisition of StayNTouch, Inc., a U.S. software company.