German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just finished his two-day state visit to China this week with both sides vowing to deepen economic ties while airing sharp differences over trade imbalances, security concerns and fair competition.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration issued long-awaited interim rules to block Chinese companies from accessing billions of dollars in U.S. clean energy tax credits, as part of the implementation of President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Yesterday, China's Ministry of Commerce sanctioned 40 Japanese firms across the aerospace, defense, and heavy industrial sectors under its export control laws, enforcing stricter licensing requirements or outright bans.

Today, China's Ministry of Commerce said that it is still weighing the implications of a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down President Donald Trump's use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs, while closely monitoring new tariff developments.

Taiwan has tightened its export controls on high‑tech and military‑related goods in a move to align its rules with international regimes, according to the government.

Chinese market regulators this month released a series of "typical cases" of unfair competition in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. By cracking down on companies exploiting the popularity of AI models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, authorities are signaling a zero-tolerance policy toward free-riders who use deceptive branding and

China will eliminate tariffs on all products from 53 African nations this spring, President Xi Jinping announced in a message sent last week to the African Union (AU) Summit.