As former President Trump gets closer to his return to the Oval Office, speculation has grown about his proposed 60% tariffs on Chinese imports. Simultaneously, momentum is building in Congress to revoke China's Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status. These parallel developments could potentially trigger a new round

At an event yesterday on "US - China trade relations after the US elections," Cecilia Malmström and Mary Lovely of PIIE and Tao Wang of UBS Investment Bank talked about a number of issues related to the future of U.S. - China trade under the incoming Trump

The Biden administration's recent move to restrict outbound investments to China has prompted swift condemnation from Beijing, which characterizes the measures as discriminatory and detrimental to global economic cooperation. As both countries grapple with the implications of these restrictions, concerns are mounting over potential retaliation and the broader

In September, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) issued a report on the WTO compliance of the U.S., the second report of this kind. It labelled Washington as "a destroyer of the multilateral trading system," "a practitioner of unilateralism and bullying," "a manipulator

In a newly released podcast, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai offered a number of thoughts on U.S. trade policy as it relates to China, discussing what she saw as the failure to realize expectations from China's WTO accession as well as concepts such as overcapacity and

Over the course of the two-day meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan this week, discussions centered on mutual sanctions, but no consensus was reached, suggesting that the impasse may persist for some time.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced sanctions against three entities affiliated with Lockheed Martin, and three of its executives, for arms sales to Taiwan.