The annual EU-Taiwan Trade and Investment Dialogue (TID) took place today, with discussions of "economic, trade and investment challenges and trends currently affecting the global economy."

The United States and Taiwan announced today that they would launch a new initiative on bilateral trade issues. In the absence of a free trade agreement, which does not appear likely any time soon, this could end up being the most significant formal bilateral trade-related negotiation between the two

A long-standing China-Philippines dispute over fishing in disputed waters has flared up again, with the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) filing an official protest against a Chinese fishing ban.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter yesterday to the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), criticizing the DFC for focusing on progressive goals and ignoring its mission of "counter[ing] the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative.

As we reported in January, Japan and the U.S. put China's cybersecurity measures on the agenda of a meeting of the WTO's Council for Trade in Services in October 2021. The same two countries put these measures on the agenda at the March 2022 meeting

A new piece by the European think tank Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) makes the case that Chinese production of electric vehicles will harm European industries and therefore merits the use of trade defense instruments in response. Calls for trade measures in this sector are likely to be taken

Last November, China and Switzerland looked to update the free trade agreement (FTA) they signed in 2013, but recent news reports suggest the efforts may have stalled.