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.

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.

The European Union and China laid the groundwork for a safeguard measure that will cap annual imports of Chinese hybrid vehicles at 350,000 units, as the EU is planning moves to curb a recent influx in imports of these cars from China.

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.

China and the European Union have agreed to explore possible tariff reductions and consider measures to facilitate trade in dual-use goods, Chinese officials said, following two days of talks in Beijing aimed at easing trade tensions.

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.