China convicts and sentences American citizen John Shing-Wan Leung to life in prison for espionage. 2023-05-15
The United States Department of Commerce expands its sanctions on Chinese technological vendor Huawei by adding 38 of the company's affiliates to its "entity list", limiting Huawei's access into U.S. integrated circuits and other technology. The Trump administration has viewed Huawei as "an arm of the Chinese Communist Party's surveillance state." 2020-08-17
The U.S. State Department formally rejects most of China's maritime claims in the South China Sea. 2020-07-13
The United States formally revokes Hong Kong's special trade status; it is now seen as equivalent to mainland China. 2020-06-29
Citing human rights issues, the United States Department of Commerce puts 20 Chinese public security bureaus and eight high tech companies, such as HikVision, SenseTime and Megvii, on the Export Administration Regulations entities blacklist. Like Huawei, which was sanctioned on an identical blueprint for national security reasons, the entities will need U.S. government approval before they can purchase components from U.S. companies. 2019-10-7
President of the United States Donald Trump announces in a tweet that the United States will impose import tariffs of 10% on US$300 billion worth of Chinese exports starting September 1. 2019-08-1