Two Republican U.S. Senators have called for adding the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), a Chinese state-owned aircraft manufacturer, to the Commerce Department's Military End User (MEU) List.

At the November 2022 meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Goods, for which the minutes were recently circulated, several issues related to trade with China were raised for the first time (including U.S. subsidies on clean energy and semiconductors), and various other previously raised issues

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.

Virginia's Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, who has been talked about as a possible 2024 U.S. presidential candidate, visited Taiwan this week, and during the trip Virginia and Taiwan signed an MOU for economic cooperation. In addition, Youngkin signed an executive order establishing an office for economic development

As part of a report on "CPTPP: opportunities and challenges for the UK" that was published today, the UK House of Commons International Trade Committee considered the implications of China’s accession to the CPTPP.

The latest episode of the Trade Talks podcast examines China's industrial policy, with a focus on the Made in China 2025 initiative.

Last week, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on "The U.S. Tax Code Subsidizing Green Corporate Handouts and the Chinese Communist Party."