The US should boost efforts to tackle security-related economic threats from China by creating one government body designed to cut bureaucratic infighting, according to an influential congressional commission.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Tuesday said the US government had to halt internecine fights to help improve its ability to implement and monitor export controls and improve sanctions policy.
In one of 28 recommendations on issues from biotechnology supply chains to Taiwan, the commission said the new entity should take in parts of the government such as the commerce department’s bureau of industry and security [BIS], the Treasury department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the state department’s office of export control co-operation.