Over the past month, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced two sets of sanctions measures on twelve U.S. companies and ten executives of sanctioned entities, citing arms sales to Taiwan.

On October 8, China's Ministry of Commerce announced provisional anti-dumping measures against EU brandy. This is part of an ongoing trade remedy tit-for-tat between China and the European Union.

The China Sanctions Database is now available on China Trade Monitor. The database will cover all sanctions announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) under the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law and by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) under the Export Control Law and the Provisions on the List of Unreliable

China's 2023 report on foreign direct investment (FDI) revealed that Chinese investment reached US$177.29 billion last year, with the majority going to Asian countries, while FDI in the EU and the U.S. dropped.

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

A recent case at the Beijing Internet Court tested the boundaries of intellectual property rights and the right to voice in the age of AI. The case involves Microsoft.

In September, the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) issued regulations regarding nuts, fruits, and vegetables from over a dozen African countries, as a follow up on deals reached at recent bilateral meetings.