After TikTok: Navigating the Complex Web of Foreign Tech Bans

This report surveys escalating U.S. state and federal measures targeting Chinese technology over cybersecurity and national security concerns, including Texas expanding a banned technology list, FCC-tightened restrictions on covered Chinese telecom gear, NASA blocking DeepSeek, and a Commerce Department proposal to bar TP-Link devices, alongside TikTok’s U.S. restructuring to address national security safeguards. It highlights ongoing debates over evidence versus risk, industry pushback, and the practical impact on state and local government procurement, noting parallel actions against Russian software and reciprocal bans by China.