Beijing unexpectedly announced last week that it had found “pests” in Taiwanese pineapples, and banned their import. Taiwan called it an “ambush,” and drew a parallel to China’s targeting of Australian wine.
New rules from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology make clear that Beijing aims to tighten export controls on rare earth metals, a group of minerals essential to manufacturing electronics. Meanwhile, China has been on a cobalt buying binge, particularly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What was the impetus for RCEP, the largest free trade agreement in the world? Was it a win for China? Why should the U.S. care about this and other Asia-Pacific trade deals? You have questions, we have answers.
Comments from a high-ranking official at China's National Development and Reform Commission are the clearest signal so far that Beijing is serious about linking its own multinational trading regime with Africa's.
Only five days after signing RCEP, one major Asian trade deal, China says that it is considering joining another: the CPTPP, a renegotiated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Trump pulled the U.S. out of in 2017.
It’s been one year since Donald Trump threatened to impose large-scale tariffs on China in March 2018. The first round of those tariffs went into...
For the U.S., the balance between openness and innovation with restrictions and control has always been essential. In its current techno-feud with China, it risks...
Reuters reports: “The European Union on Tuesday provisionally agreed on rules for a far-reaching system to coordinate scrutiny of foreign investments into Europe, notably from...
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