On Friday, as part of the Summit for Democracy [https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy/] it organized, the Biden administration announced the Export Controls and Human Rights Initiative, a coordinated effort among several governments related to export controls and human rights, with China as one of the targets. A joint statement

On Friday, the Office of Foreign Assets Control at the U.S. Treasury Department added [https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/recent-actions/20211210] the Chinese company SenseTime to its non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List [https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/consolidated-sanctions-list/ns-cmic-list] , which would effectively mean that Americans are

At a WITA webinar [https://www.wita.org/events/chinas-wto-20-years/] today commemorating the 20 year anniversary of China's accession to the WTO, several key figures from the accession negotiations on both the U.S. and Chinese sides offered remarks and responded to questions. The speakers were Ambassador Charlene

In a 428-1 vote yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed [https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021412?BillNum=H.R.1155] the "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act [https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1155/text]," which is intended to "[e]nsur[e] that goods made

At a press conference [https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-penshurst-nsw] on December 8, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australia "will not be sending any official representatives to the forthcoming Winter Games in China." He cited "the human rights abuses in Xinjiang and the many

The European Commission has adopted [https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2338] definitive anti-dumping measures on imports of aluminum converter foil from China. The level of the anti-dumping duties ranges from 15.4% to 28.5%. One interesting aspect of the Commission's reasoning relates

Two events today discussed the problem of trade coercion. The first, entitled " Responding to Trade Coercion: A Growing Threat to the Global Trading System [https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/responding-trade-coercion-growing-threat-global-trading-system-0] ," was put on by the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) and the Perth USAsia Centre, and talked about responses