A new MERICS piece by analysts Rebecca Arcesati and Francesca Ghiretti discusses how the Italian government has used its existing power for foreign investment screening to block certain transactions with a China connection, and also notes that it may establish "a new unit within the cabinet of the prime

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * Chinese copyright rulings, anti-dumping duties, SPS measures, cybersecurity reviews, and trade between the BRICS countries. * U.S. Congressional actions related to data outflows and TikTok, a Congressional call for an anti-dumping/countervailing duty case on masks and medical equipment, Chinese companies added

A few days after a letter by some Republican Senators to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen regarding the Biden Administration’s "delayed plan to combat national security risks associated with TikTok," a different group of Republican Senators has now written to TikTok with questions about the company's

A cybersecurity firm that tracks Chinese influence campaigns has reported on specific activity in the rare earth mining sector.

The U.S. Commerce Department has added a number of Chinese (and other) companies to its Entity List, with one of the reasons being the support provided by certain companies "to Russia’s military and/or defense industrial base."

The three-day G7 summit concluded today, with the final communiqué addressing a number of issues related to China.

Five U.S. Senators have introduced bipartisan legislation "to create new protections against Americans’ sensitive personal information being sold or transferred to high-risk foreign countries," a category which is certain to include China.