The telecom company China Mobile International (CMI) has filed a legal challenge to a Canadian government order, issued on the basis of national security concerns, that it sell off or wind down its Canadian investments. Government reviews based on security concerns tend to be highly confidential, with little information available

Three U.S. Senators -- Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) -- have called on the Biden administration to tighten up rules of origin related to U.S. trade agreements. In a recent letter [https://www.casey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_

Last Friday, a number of media reports suggested that the Biden administration was considering opening a Section 301 investigation into China's industrial subsidies (see Bloomberg [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-10/biden-team-weighs-china-trade-probe-in-bid-to-pressure-beijing] , Financial Times [https://www.ft.com/content/76dd1430-bd4b-4f6f-954a-40ab0d636e74], Wall Street Journal [https://www.wsj.com/

In recent years, the United States has raised many fundamental issues related to China's participation in the WTO, but one smaller issue that has flown under the radar is China's import ban on solid waste, which continues to be a point of contention between the two

On September 9, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressing concern about Chinese “Internet of Things” (IoT) company Tuya, and asking the Treasury Department to add Tuya to a “Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List,” which

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry was in China last week to meet with Chinese officials on issues related to climate change, in advance of the November UN climate conference. The meetings did not make much progress in this area, however, and China took the opportunity to criticize U.S.

In a speech on September 6, Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg discussed Australia-China economic relations. Acknowledging that Australia is on the "frontline" of strategic competition, he highlighted that the Australian economy is "remarkably resilient" and that it has a "deep trading relationship with many other countries.