U.S. Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen's recent statements on China being a "barrier" to resolving the debt issues in Zambia provoked a harsh response from the Chinese government.

Recently, China Trade Monitor had the honor of sitting down with Scott Kennedy, senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank based in Washington DC. During the interview, Kennedy talked about both U.S. trade policy

Today, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen met in Zurich, Switzerland. The two sides found some common ground for cooperation, and both officials called for keeping the communication channel open. However, it will take more work to alter the current trajectory of bilateral

One of the first actions by the new Republican House majority was to establish a Select Committee to study "strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party." Most Democrats supported the Republican proposal, although some Democrats objected and others who supported it had concerns, on

With the Republican party now in control of the U.S. House of Representatives, House Republican leaders have chosen Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) as Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is the main House Committee with jurisdiction over trade policy. The Chair of the Subcommittee on trade

Last week, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced the Trade with China Strategic Assessment Act, which would require an executive branch report about trade integration with China.

MOFCOM announced today that China would file a WTO complaint challenging U.S. export control measures related to semiconductors.