https://www.scmp.com/rss/525351/feed Malaika Thiam-Bockman is a Schwarzman Fellow on the trade, investment and economic sSecurity team at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. Her expertise spans global trade policy, international economic law and emerging technologies. Malaika holds a master’s degree in global affairs from Tsinghua University and earned her bachelor’s degree in ethics, politics and economics from Yale University. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Malaika Thiam-Bockman Malaika Thiam-Bockman The United States has been constructing a new dimension of its economic security policy: outbound investment rules. Since January last year, Washington has not only established its first outbound investment screening programme but codified it into law and explicitly provided for its expansion. These rules are gaining teeth, giving rise to a compliance architecture that conditions US foreign direct investment on national security priorities. As firms begin to operationalise these rules, capital... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3342148/beyond-china-asia-will-bear-brunt-us-builds-walls-around-tech-capital?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3342148/beyond-china-asia-will-bear-brunt-us-builds-walls-around-tech-capital?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:30:38 +0000