Like Bill Bishop, I thought the Politico piece was less interesting than James Mulvenon's WOTR article: https://warontherocks.com/2021/01/a-world-divided-the-conflict-with-chinese-techno-nationalism-isnt-coming-its-already-here/ Mulvenon would make a good choice for the Commerce post, especially because he really does know the brief extremely well. I've been away from this thread for a few weeks, has there already been discussion of William C. Hannas and Didi Kirsten Tatlow, eds., China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage? It has some very good, detailed reporting and several contributions from Mulvenon.