
Greyson Mann
Manager, Government Affairs
Washington, DC
Manager, Government Affairs
Washington, DC
Greyson is a Government Affairs Manager at the US-China Business Council. He previously served as a Founding Team Member and Assistant Director of Whittle School & Studios’ Center of Excellence on International Cooperation. He also previously served as an appointee in the Obama administration’s Department of Education Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He has also worked in the tech sector at Chainbridge Technologies and Digital Promise.
He is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and is also the Director of Research for the Black China Caucus. He holds his Masters in International Trade and Economic Diplomacy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. He attended Wofford College for his Bachelors, where he received a Princeton in Asia Fellowship. He speaks Chinese and has lived in Beijing and Shanghai.
US and Chinese officials convened in early September in Tianjin, China for the second US-China Commercial Issues Working Group (CIWG), marking another step in the iterative process of addressing commercial concerns between the two countries.
On June 21, the US Department of the Treasury issued a highly anticipated draft rule aimed at curbing the flow of US capital into sensitive, dual-use technologies in China. The rule, once implemented, will enact novel filing requirements—and, in certain cases, prohibitions—for US corporations and investors that seek to conduct investment activities in a defined range of technologies, which includes semiconductors, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI).
The US-China Commercial Issues Working Group (CIWG), the first commercial bilateral mechanism between the United States and China in seven years, recently concluded its first meeting, which took place in Washington, DC. The mechanism was created last fall, during talks between Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, as a platform for the private sector to raise specific issues with both governments.
US and Chinese officials are meeting more frequently than in recent years, thanks in large part to the over a dozen working groups and dialogues established or restarted amid a thaw in bilateral relations that began in 2023. These mechanisms were established to address global and bilateral issues relating to economics and trade, military-to-military communications, climate change, counternarcotics, and more.
Multiple states in the United States are considering passing legislation to regulate land purchases by Chinese entities in 2024. This is a continuation of a pattern that began last year that reflects broader tensions between the United States and China.