In a call with journalists yesterday, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai was asked two questions specifically about trade with China, and in her responses confirmed what she and others in the Biden administration have been saying: "decoupling" with China is not their goal.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's speech on the U.S. - China Economic Relationship last week raises a number of questions about its intentions and implications, and generated a wide range of reactions.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen gave a speech today at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC on the U.S. - China Economic Relationship. She did not break new ground in terms of the Biden administration's thinking, but her speech

In February, China's Ministry of Commerce sanctioned two U.S. firms, Lockheed Martin Corporation and Raytheon Missiles and Defense, for their arms sales to Taiwan. Today the agency offered more specifics on the sanctions and the sanctioned executives.

Scholars at a U.S. think tank have proposed a counterstrategy to address Chinese economic coercion. Instead of tit-for-tat retaliation, they suggest building closer economic relationships with allies and partners, and helping them to decouple from China in strategic sectors and critical technology. At an event where the proposal was

Yesterday, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released its 2023 Trade Policy Agenda / 2022 Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program. The report covers the full range of trade policy issues addressed by USTR. We focus here on the report&

China's Ministry of Commerce responded to a new U.S. report on China's WTO compliance by saying that it represents U.S. "unilateralist thinking and consistent bullying."