U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a TV reporter that he and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were leaving for Malaysia on Oct. 22, to hold trade talks with their Chinese counterparts.
Think tank and academic experts say that China and the U.S. are misinterpreting both sides' actions and the other country's vulnerability to the trade war, and that may extend the battles.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a TV reporter that he and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were leaving for Malaysia on Oct. 22, to hold trade talks with their Chinese counterparts.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., urged the Treasury Department Oct. 15 to use the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review reports that China-based investors are buying Southern California land ravaged by January wildfires.
Figuring out ways to gauge the reliability of low earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband and its compliance with connectivity program requirements remains a work in progress, state broadband officials said Thursday during an Ookla virtual panel. David Bresnahan, the Maine Connectivity Authority's senior manager of grants and programs, said the state is awaiting official BEAD guidance on compliance. However, he said, it will be using randomized speed testing and other performance metrics, and third-party verification will be needed.
Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Rick Crawford, R-Ark., reintroduced a bill Oct. 14 that would prohibit China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from buying or controlling agricultural land and businesses in the U.S. The Promoting Agriculture Safeguards and Security (PASS) Act was referred to the House Financial Services, Foreign Affairs and Energy and Commerce committees. The lawmakers previously introduced the measure in the last Congress.
The U.S. “faces a fork in the road” on wireless, and the spectrum that will be made available under the reconciliation package “comes none too soon,” new CTIA President Ajit Pai said Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Las Vegas. Pai warned that a lot of work remains to get more licensed spectrum in play. “Identifying bands and setting an ambitious target is not the same as making spectrum available.”
The Senate approved by voice vote late on Oct. 9 an amendment to the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would restrict U.S. outbound investment in China.
Exporters shouldn’t assume that the AUKUS initiative between Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. will continue in its current form, even though the Trump administration has made mostly positive comments about the agreement, said Charles Edel, the Australia chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
U.S. arguments that spectrum licenses don't confer property rights protected by the Fifth Amendment undermine wireless providers' reliance on those licenses and could chill investment, according to USTelecom. In an amicus brief filed this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (docket 25-1792), USTelecom said that if spectrum licenses don't confer any protected property right, a federal agency could unilaterally override a wireless provider's right to use spectrum without triggering a right to compensation. The same goes for other authorized use of public assets, including federal lands, it said. "That theory is breathtakingly broad -- and it cannot be right."