This past week, CTM covered the following issues.

Following a high-stakes summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin. The back-to-back summits underscore China's delicate balancing act.

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) revised its control list of chemical exports, adding three more substances to a list that requires special permission for shipments to the United States, Mexico and Canada.

China is leveraging its 2026 APEC host year to position itself as the primary architect of the Asia-Pacific’s digital and services infrastructure, two commercial frontiers that Beijing has pushed to the top of its trade agenda in recent years.

Chinese firm Wingtech invoked Chinese anti-sanctions legislation to sue its Dutch subsidiaries Nexperia and five other parties in Chinese court, seeking to unwind Dutch measures that it says unlawfully stripped it of control over its semiconductor subsidiary as well as 8 billion yuan (approximately $1.2 billion) in compensation.

At a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) event, U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer had a discussion with former U.S. Trade Rep. Mike Froman about various aspects of U.S. trade policy. Issues related to China that came up were the Board of Trade, AI cooperation, and Chinese foreign investment in the U.S.

In an opinion issued this week, a U.S. court ruled in favor of a Trump administration order that a Chinese purchaser of a U.S. audiovisual equipment company must divest the purchase, and that a preliminary injunction appointing a receiver to handle the divestment is the appropriate relief.

As part of an ongoing discussion in the EU on how to respond to economic harm from Chinese exports, a group of EU member states published a paper that makes the case for a variety of new trade tools.

A new academic paper examines how China uses anti-dumping investigations as a retaliatory response to anti-dumping/countervailing duty investigations it faces in other countries, focusing on the example of China's pork investigation in flipping Spain's vote in the EU electric vehicle case.