Organisation: Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

A Chinese government official has said the country will “firmly oppose” any order from the US foreign investment review body forcing TikTok to split from its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance.

24 March 2023

The US foreign investment review body must ensure that assets from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank do not end up “in the hands of hostile” states, a top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee has said.

20 March 2023

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has reportedly told TikTok that it risks a total ban in the US if it does not spin-off from its Chinese owners, drawing a sharp rebuke from Beijing.

17 March 2023

TikTok is reportedly willing to split with its Chinese parent company ByteDance if a current proposal before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States fails to resolve national security concerns.

15 March 2023

South Dakota’s Senate has rejected a bill that would have created the country's first state-level foreign investment review body with the power to scrutinise transactions based on national security concerns.

22 February 2023

A Republican senator has called for a national security review into a licensing agreement between Ford Motor Company and a Chinese lithium-ion battery manufacturer to develop a new electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan.

15 February 2023

The US foreign investment review body has exempted New Zealand and UK investors from its jurisdiction to review deals for certain minority investments and mandatory filing requirements.

13 February 2023

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States does not plan to probe Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, which was partly funded by foreign investors, despite calls from the country’s executive and legislative branches to do so.

08 February 2023

A bipartisan and bicameral bill has intensified calls to add the US agriculture secretary as a standing member of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States after the body failed to intervene in the sale of sensitive land in North Dakota to a Chinese company.

01 February 2023

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US has issued an interim order temporarily blocking a Sino Biopharm subsidiary’s $161 million acquisition of a biopharmaceutical company.

05 January 2023