At a U.S. Senate hearing yesterday, several Senators raised concerns about Chinese purchases of U.S. farmland, and proposed expanding the role of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) in reviewing these transactions.

In an interview from earlier in February, Ambassador Fu Cong, Head of the Chinese Mission to the EU, offered some insights into official Chinese government thinking on the following issues: other countries' economic relationships with Taiwan, restrictions on trade in Chinese products due to labor/human rights concerns, the

Last Friday, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued its 21st report on China's compliance with "commitments made in connection with its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), including both multilateral commitments and any bilateral commitments made to the United States." The

At a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) event last week, Melanie Hart, Senior Advisor for China and the Indo-Pacific in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, discussed issues related to Chinese economic coercion. In addition, a bipartisan group of

Last week, two Democratic Florida state legislators announced that they had introduced legislation that would "block the purchase or acquisition of real property by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and any related third party, in locations close to military bases and locations deemed to be strategic assets in the

At a Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) event last week that brought together experts from the U.S. and South Korea, Alan Estevez, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce, discussed several issues related to export controls on semiconductors

A recent media interview with the Australian trade minister and an Australian parliamentary hearing offer some updates on developments in China-Australia trade relations, which have appeared to become less contentious under the new Australian government.