Friday Policy Wine Down - July 29, 2022
A snapshot of the past week in cyber, trade, and environmental policy news.
SILVERADO NEWS
TRADE & ECO²SEC: Silverado’s Executive Director Sarah Stewart participated in a WITA-hosted discussion on the recently concluded Fisheries Agreement at the WTO with Angela Ellard, WTO Deputy Director-General and Jennifer Prescott, Director AWS International Trade & Tax and Latin America Public Policy, Amazon Web Services.
GEOPOLITICS: In a new episode of the Geopolitics Decanted podcast, Silverado’s Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dmitri Alperovitch speaks with with energy markets and Russian oil and gas sector expert Sergey Vakulenko (formerly with Gazprom Neft, Royal Dutch Shell and IHS Markit) about how Russia is engineering an energy crisis in Europe, with spillover effects all over the world.
CYBERSECURITY: Silverado’s Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dmitri Alperovitch participated in a Lawfare Podcast to discuss the Cyber Safety Review Board and Log4j incident.
Here’s what caught our eye this week:
KEY ADMINISTRATION ACTIONS
The White House:
- Statement from President Biden on House Passage of CHIPS and Science Act to Lower Costs, Create Good-Pay Jobs and Strengthen Our National Security
- Readout of President Biden’s Call With President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China
Department of Commerce:
- Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Applauds Final Passage of CHIPS Legislation
- Ambassador Katherine Tai and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo Virtual Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Ministerial Readout
Office of the United States Trade Representative:
Department of the Treasury:
- Treasury Targets the Kremlin's Continued Malign Political Influence Operations in the U.S. and Globally
- Treasury Department Signs Agreement to Contribute $500 Million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to Support Ukraine and Other Affected Countries
Department of Homeland Security:
- DHS Expands Partnership to Combat Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labor
- Readout of Inaugural Cyber Incident Reporting Council Meeting
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency:
Department of Energy:
- Statement by Secretary Granholm on Congressional Passage of the CHIPS and Science Act
- Biden-Harris Administration Launches New Solar Initiatives to Lower Electricity Bills and Create Clean Energy Jobs
Department of State:
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
Senate Finance Committee:
Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs:
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission:
- Upcoming Hearing: Challenges from Chinese Policy in 2022: Zero-COVID, Ukraine, and Pacific Diplomacy
Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
- Menendez, Colleagues Call on Meta, Twitter, Telegram to Address Russian Spanish-Language Disinformation Efforts Targeting Western Hemisphere
- Hearing: U.S. National Security and Economic Statecraft: Ensuring U.S. Global Leadership for the Twenty-First Century
House Foreign Affairs Committee:
- Meeks, McCaul Issue Statement on Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s Tour in Africa
- Upcoming Hearing: China’s Role in the Middle East
- Hearing: Countering Gray Zone Coercion in the Indo-Pacific
Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee:
House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology:
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