Senator James Lankford (R-OK) has introduced a bill that would use Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) as leverage to deter Chinese coercion and military aggression against Taiwan.

Chinese company Trina Solar has announced it will build a "more than 1 million square foot solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing facility in Wilmer, Texas."

In her annual State of the European Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced today that the Commission would launch an anti-subsidy investigation on imports of Chinese electric vehicles.

At an event held by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) yesterday, the two leaders of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), spoke with CFR President Mike Froman about issues

A Chinese company's investment in a battery-making facility in the state of Illinois has just been announced, even as a similar investment in Michigan continues to generate controversy.

As CTM reported in early May, at the May 2 meeting of the WTO's Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, a number of issues were raised by other WTO Members about China's subsidy policies; and China brought up concerns with certain U.S. measures, including the

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Meetings with Australia and Italy * Efforts to open up services trade * Penalties on foreign due diligence firm In Canada: * Investigations of companies with ties to Uyghur labor At the WTO: * Difficulties with appointment of Chinese citizen to subsidies expert group