This past week, CTM covered the following issues.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced two sanction measures against high-ranking cabinet officials from Paraguay and Belize, intensifying Beijing's diplomatic pressure over official ties with Taiwan.

China's central authorities recently issued a blueprint designed to pivot its economy toward high-tech manufacturing while setting guardrails against speculative investment and local government overspending.

Wrapping up a visit to Beijing, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič offered a positive assessment of what had been achieved; Chinese officials said that China and the EU agreed to explore possible tariff reductions and consider measures to facilitate trade in dual-use goods; subsequently, the EU and China laid the groundwork for a safeguard measure that will cap annual imports of Chinese hybrid vehicles at 350,000 units.

The Attorneys-General of Florida, Iowa, Montana, and Nebraska filed complaints in their state courts against router company TP-Link, accusing the company of deceptive practices by hiding its ties to China and engaging in deceptive practices related to data protection. The state of Iowa also brought two additional lawsuits against companies with ties to China.

China and India moved forward with the dispute over measures in the Indian solar and IT sectors, as they agreed on panelists who would hear the dispute at the WTO.

A long-time scholar of the Chinese economy called into question some of the recent estimates of Chinese industrial subsidies.

The Peterson Institute hosted a webinar on "How do we deal with Chinese overcapacity?"