The Biden administration should impose sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act on Republic of Georgia officials responsible for violence against those peacefully protesting the country’s democratic backsliding, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., said Dec. 16. “Now is the moment for the United States and our allies to stand strong with the people of Georgia in their pursuit of democracy and freedom,” Cardin said. Sens. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., made similar comments two weeks earlier (see 2412020009).
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said Dec. 17 that lawmakers have forged a compromise on legislation to restrict U.S. outbound investment in China.
Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass., introduced a bill Dec. 11 that would codify Russia sanctions imposed under nine executive orders: 13849, 13883, 14024, 14039, 14065, 14066, 14068, 14701 and 14114. It is identical to a bill that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., introduced in September.
The Biden administration has no plans to alter its policy toward Cuba during its final weeks in office, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a congressional panel last week.
The U.S. and its allies should increase their scrutiny of China's foreign investment in commercial remote sensing firms to ensure the Chinese military does not benefit from such transactions, the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in a new report Dec. 16.
The U.S. government needs a better framework to allow various agencies to coordinate on economic security measures, such as export controls and investment restrictions, Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves said.
The leaders of the House Select Committee on China urged TikTok Dec. 13 to comply with an eight-month-old law that will ban the popular social media application in the U.S. unless it is divested by Chinese parent company ByteDance by Jan. 19.
The U.S. government should dramatically increase the number of Cuban officials who are sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said Dec. 11.
Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., introduced a bill Dec. 10 that would codify President Joe Biden’s February executive order allowing the U.S. to sanction those who undermine peace, security and stability in the West Bank (see 2402010053).