Today, China announced new export controls on drones and drone-related equipment, effective on September 1.

China's southern city Shenzhen issued a new action plan to promote the use of domestic operating systems developed by Huawei, which is headquartered in the city.

Last week, Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, urging the Biden Administration to tighten the export controls that restrict advanced semiconductors and equipment from being exported to China.

In a conversation with Sadek Wahba of the Wilson Center, Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo offered some thoughts that may help define the boundaries of when the Biden administration sees doing business with China as acceptable and when it is not.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Meeting with Indonesian President * Trade and investment data * New anti-dumping investigation on U.S. propionic acid * New efforts on "strategic emerging" sectors In the U.S.: * Congressional hearing on "Economic Security" * Congressional scrutiny of Ford-CATL deal

At today's meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, the U.S., Hong Kong, and China continued to argue about a U.S. measure involving the origin marking for products from Hong Kong, and a panel report finding China's anti-dumping measure on steel imports

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo met in Beijing today. During their meeting, they discussed trade, investment and other areas of cooperation.