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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. Senate has kicked off the complicated process of coordinating and passing multi-committee legislation designed to bolster U.S. technological capabilities, expand the U.S. political, diplomatic, and economic toolkit for dealing with China, and curb China’s growing geopolitical influence.   The effort has garnered strong bipartisan support and is likely to yield landmark legislation that will be enacted with strong bipartisan support and the backing of the Biden Administration. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, an...

Bipartisanship Lives! The Amazing Convergence on China Policy Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo Chinese staffers adjust the U.S. and Chinese flags before the opening session of trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese trade representatives at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, February 2019. In today’s poisoned partisan atmosphere, where Republicans are laying systematic plans to steal the 2022 election and using the filibuster to block much of the Biden program, one remarkable island of bipartisanship stands out—China policy. Next week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is l...

The Strategic Competition Act of 2021, 1 approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 21, 2021, signals continued bipartisan consensus to orient U.S. policy towards aggressive action to counter China. Given the broad bipartisan support in Washington to address China's malign activities, the bill will likely pass the Senate and House of Representatives. This bill is a useful barometer of congressional sentiment towards China and may guide the Biden administration's future China-related actions. The bill recognizes that U.S. ability to effectively compete with China requires do...

[co-author: Christina Barone] President Biden’s Discretionary Budget Request: Fiscal Year 2022 On April 9, 2021, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submitted President Biden’s discretionary funding request (the “Request”) to Congress for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. The Request lays out the President’s discretionary funding recommendations across a wide range of policy areas, including a strategy for investing in emerging technology areas, maintaining economic competitiveness and national security and positioning the U.S. to out-compete China. The Request is high-level and did not ...