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| 2025 | The United States had imposed a total of six rounds of sanctions between 2020 and 2025 targeting Hong Kong and Chinese officials under the Hong Kong Autonomy Act. |
| March 2025 | The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a Chinese 'teapot' oil refinery and related executives for violations of international sanctions against Iran. |
| 2025 | Jimmy Lai's attorneys were reported to be targeted by phishing attempts, rape threats, and death threats linked to the People's Republic of China. |
| February 2025 | President Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum (NSPM) directing CFIUS to restrict Chinese investments across multiple critical sectors including technology, infrastructure, healthcare, agriculture, energy, and raw materials. The memorandum commits to using 'all necessary legal instruments' to curb Chinese investments in the United States. |
| February 1 2025 | President Trump issued Executive Order 14195, imposing a 10% tariff on imports from China due to perceived insufficient action by Chinese officials in stopping precursor chemical supply to criminal cartels and curbing money laundering by transnational criminal organizations. |
| January 2025 | Yong Zhu was sentenced to two years in prison for his involvement in Operation Fox Hunt. |
| 2024 | Hong Kong national security police took Simon Cheng's father to a police station for questioning. |
| 2024 | Amnesty International highlighted China's increasing tactic of threatening overseas activists' family members in mainland China with loss of jobs, retirement benefits, and physical freedom to coerce compliance. |
| 2024 | The Chinese government announced that SOE management would be assessed based on stock market performance. |
| December 2024 | The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company for involvement in ransomware attacks. Simultaneously, federal prosecutors indicted one of the company's employees in connection with these cyber activities. |
| December 2024 | Chen Jinping pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as a PRC agent. |
| December 2024 | U.S. Department of Justice arrested Yaoning 'Mike' Sun for acting as an illegal PRC agent to influence U.S. local politicians on issues related to Taiwan and Falun Gong, including proposing a plan to counter 'anti-China forces' with a Washington, D.C. Independence Day parade. |
| November 2024 | Texas governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest those attempting to conduct influence operations to return dissidents to China, in response to Operation Fox Hunt. |
| November 2024 | Ping Li was sentenced to 48 months in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release for acting as an illegal Chinese agent. |
| November 19 2024 | John Chen was sentenced to 20 months in prison. |
| October 2024 | U.S. Treasury Department issued regulations implementing the Outbound Order, further enforcing restrictions on U.S. investments in key technological sectors in China. |
| October 2024 | U.S. sanctioned two companies, Xiamen Limbach Aircraft Engine Co. and Redlepus Vector Industry, for involving the production of long-range attack drones for Russia, including the Garpiya. |
| September 26 2024 | Lin Feng received a time-served sentence of 16 months in prison. |
| July 2024 | OFAC sanctioned individuals in China accused of money laundering for the Sinaloa Cartel. |
| July 2024 | The United States imposed sanctions on multiple Chinese individuals and entities, alleging their involvement in procuring items to support North Korea's ballistic missile and space programs. |
| July 2024 | U.S. Department of Justice charged Ping Li with conspiring to act as an undisclosed Chinese agent, collecting and providing information about Chinese dissidents, pro-democracy advocates, and Falun Gong members to China's Ministry of State Security. |
| July 24 2024 | John Chen and Lin Feng pleaded guilty to acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government and bribing a public official. |
| May 2024 | The U.S. Commerce Department added 37 units of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) to the Entity List in response to their involvement in the 2023 Chinese balloon incident. |
| May 2024 | U.S. sanctioned 20 companies in China and Hong Kong for supplying Russia's military. |
| April 2024 | Department of Commerce sanctioned a Chinese company for supporting Russia's military through the procurement, development, and proliferation of Russian drones. |
| February 2024 | Madrid-based human rights group Safeguard Defenders launched a center to provide free legal assistance to dissidents facing transnational repression by China. |
| February 2024 | Police in Istanbul, Turkey detained six individuals suspected of espionage activities against Uyghurs on behalf of China's intelligence forces. |
| 2023 | Multiple state-owned enterprises established internal People's Armed Forces Departments run by the People's Liberation Army to address potential security concerns. |
| 2023 | 85 out of 135 Chinese companies on the Fortune Global 500 list are state-owned enterprises (SOEs), demonstrating their significant presence in global business. |
| December 2023 | Hong Kong Police issued a 1 million Hong Kong dollar reward for information on five individuals involved in the 2019 Hong Kong protests, including a U.S. citizen, which was criticized by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as an act of transnational repression. |
| November 2023 | During the APEC United States 2023 summit in San Francisco, pro-CCP supporters attacked Chinese, Hong Kong, and Tibetan dissident protesters, which U.S. officials described as an example of PRC transnational repression. |
| October 2023 | OFAC sanctioned a China-based network of fentanyl manufacturers and distributors. |
| October 2023 | U.S. Department of Commerce added 42 Chinese companies to the Entity List for supplying Russia with microelectronics for missile and drone guidance systems. |
| October 2023 | The U.S. Department of Commerce added Biren Technology and Moore Threads to the Entity List, further expanding sanctions on Chinese technology firms. |
| September 2023 | Six Chinese entities were sanctioned for allegedly assisting the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries Corporation in making drones to attack oil tankers and for export to Russia's military. |
| August 2023 | President Biden issued Executive Order 14105 'Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern', prohibiting U.S. investments in semiconductors, microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and artificial intelligence technologies in China. |
| July 2023 | U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a report stating that the Chinese government is assisting Russia to evade sanctions and providing it with dual-use technology. |
| June 2023 | U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Zhejiang Qingji and other entities in China and Hong Kong for selling centrifuge equipment to Iran. |
| June 2023 | U.S. federal prosecutors announced criminal indictments against fentanyl precursor producers in China. |
| June 2023 | Yong Zhu was convicted of acting as an illegal foreign agent, stalking, and conspiracy to commit stalking as part of CCP's Operation Fox Hunt. |
| May 2023 | OFAC imposed sanctions on seven additional Chinese companies and six individuals for supplying equipment to drug cartels for fentanyl production. |
| May 2023 | U.S. Department of Justice charged John Chen and Lin Feng with acting as unregistered agents of China and conspiring to manipulate the IRS Whistleblower Program targeting a Falun Gong-run entity. |
| April 2023 | The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Chinese companies and four individuals for supplying precursor chemicals for fentanyl production to Mexican drug cartels, acting under Executive Order 14059. |
| April 2023 | Lu Jianwang and Chen Jinping were arrested in New York City for operating an illegal Chinese police station in Manhattan's Chinatown, charged with conspiring to act as PRC agents and obstructing justice. |
| April 2023 | U.S. Department of Justice charged 40 Chinese national police officers for transnational repression schemes involving online harassment and censorship targeting individuals in the United States. |
| March 2023 | The U.S. Department of Commerce added 28 Chinese firms to the Entity List, including Inspur and Loongson, for acquiring American technology in support of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). |
| March 2023 | U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned five Chinese companies for supplying equipment to the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries Corporation, which manufactures HESA Shahed 136 drones used by Russia against Ukraine. |
| March 17 2023 | WHO Director-General criticized China's data-sharing, stating the data should have been shared three years earlier and calling for greater transparency. |
| March 16 2023 | A group of bipartisan U.S. Senators introduced the Transnational Repression Policy Act. |
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