WASHINGTON—A group of House Republicans wants to know more about why Canada didn’t red-flag the pending Chinese takeover of a lithium producer with offices in Toronto. The three members of Congress are also asking the Biden administration to brief Congress on how Canada and the U.S. are working together to shore up critical mineral supply…

LOS ANGELES—A Chinese appliance manufacturer and two of its subsidiaries will pay $91 million for failing to notify the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that millions of dehumidifiers sold to U.S. consumers were defective and could catch fire, federal prosecutors said Oct. 29. Gree Electric Appliances Inc.. an appliance manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, China,…

Japan’s popular messaging app LINE recently admitted that its users’ personal data stored on its server in Japan could be accessed by China-based engineers that the company had outsourced to. In an official response, LINE admitted that user data had been accessed more than 32 times and that it is now setting up a committee…