In letters to the Department of Homeland Security, Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on Competition between the U.S. and the CCP and several Republican colleagues called for Chinese battery manufacturers Gotion and CATL to be put on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * China-UAE renew partnership * MOFCOM’s “carrot and stick” diplomacy in Europe * Partial suspension of ECFA tariff concessions * SPS updates * MFA’s comments on EV subsidies Rest of the World: * U.S. government officials comment on bilateral trade and Chinese government

With a focus on the European Commission's anti-subsidy investigation of Chinese EVs, Bernd Lange, the Chairman of the Trade Committee in the European Parliament, has written a piece entitled "Avoid escalation of the EU-China trade dispute."

In response to a recent statement by President Biden on Chinese subsidies to the EV sector, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has weighed in on the issue. The rhetoric from both sides merits some fact checking and clarification.

During Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao's visit to Europe this week, he tried to highlight positive ties with Spain, Portugal, and Greece as a way to create leverage against the growing use of EU trade defense tools on Chinese goods and services.

At a Georgetown University Law Center event last week, a U.S. government official working for the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party offered some comments on the issue of Chinese government influence over private companies, and

Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met in Beijing, leading to the signing of 19 collaboration documents and one joint statement.