The Future of CFIUS
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 2 June 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) plays an essential role in advising the president on how to exercise his or her authority to block foreign investments that might let the U.S.'s adversaries acquire sensitive American technology or intellectual property. A bipartisan proposal in Congress aims to expand CFIUS's powers. On Thursday, the Center for Strategic and International Studies convened a panel of Dov Zakheim, a former Pentagon official; Ivan Schlager, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates; Nova Daly, Senior Public Policy Adviser, Wiley Rein LLP; and CSIS Vice President James Andrew Lewis, to talk about CFIUS and how it might change under the new law.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | I think it's a good bill. |
| 0:34.9 | Address is a very salient and serious issue and that is what is the dynamic of new a new |
| 0:39.9 | world, whereas before the world didn't have internet. |
| 0:44.1 | It didn't have the complexities it has now. |
| 0:46.9 | This goes to try to address those complexities. |
| 0:50.7 | Of course a lot of it's driven by the US-China relationship. |
| 0:54.2 | I think it helps define sort of what is the boundary of what is acceptable and not acceptable |
| 1:00.0 | and it also puts the US-China in a position where let's talk about the right rules for engagement |
| 1:05.9 | and how we should engage each other in the future on certainly the investment issues. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm Matthew Khan and you're listening to the LawFair podcast June 2nd 2018. |
| 1:18.7 | The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States typically referred to by its abbreviation |
| 1:24.3 | CIFIAS. |
| 1:26.1 | Please an essential role in advising the president on how to exercise his or her authority to |
| 1:31.9 | block foreign investments that might let the US's adversaries acquire sensitive American |
| 1:37.0 | technology or intellectual property. |
| 1:39.9 | A bipartisan proposal in Congress aims to expand CIFIAS's powers. |
| 1:45.9 | On Thursday, the Center for Strategic and International Studies convened a panel of |
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