This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced two sanction measures against high-ranking cabinet officials from Paraguay and Belize, intensifying Beijing's diplomatic pressure over official ties with Taiwan. China's central authorities recently issued a blueprint designed to

In addition to the lawsuit announced last week against TP-Link, the state of Iowa has brought two more lawsuits against companies with ties to China.

At a Peterson Institute webinar today, former EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström hosted a conversation on "How do we deal with Chinese overcapacity?," with Alicia García-Herrero (Bruegel; Natixis), Nicolas Lamp (Queens University) and Yeling Tan (Oxford; PIIE) as speakers.

A long-time scholar of the Chinese economy has called into question some of the recent estimates of Chinese industrial subsidies.

The Attorneys-General of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska have all filed complaints in their state courts against router company TP-Link, accusing the company of deceptive practices by hiding its ties to China and engaging in deceptive practices related to data protection.

Last week, China and India moved forward with the dispute over measures in the Indian solar and IT sectors, as they agreed on panelists who would hear the dispute at the WTO.

Wrapping up a visit to Beijing, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič offered a positive assessment of what had been achieved, although the details still needed to be confirmed with EU leaders and a timeframe for a full resolution remains unclear.