In response to the high level official meeting between politicians from the United States and Taiwan last week, China sanctioned two U.S. institutions and four individuals for their engagement in "Taiwan independence" under the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law.

The WTO has posted the written and additional written questions by WTO Members and replies provided by the United States during the U.S. trade policy review carried out last December, with China asking extensive questions of the United States as part of this process.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Meetings with Japanese, Malaysian, and Singaporean officials * New anti-dumping expiry review on paper products * Court ruling on Tesla fraud case * Shanghai trade and investment measures In the U.S.: * USTR report on foreign trade barriers * Think tank report on U.

Last month, China's Ministry of Commerce announced that it would start an expiry review of anti-dumping duties imposed on photographic paper and paper board from the European Union, Japan and the United States.

At a press conference today in conjunction with her meetings with Chinese leaders, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen commented on a number of general aspects of China-EU economic relations, such as imbalances in trade and the EU's new "de-risking" approach, as well as the

In an opinion issued yesterday, a U.S. district court judge rejected a claim by three people of Chinese origin living in the United States that their assets had been expropriated by the Chinese government, and also rejected claims of crimes such as torture and false imprisonment. The plaintiffs and

The Shanghai government recently published new measures to promote trade and foreign investment, in part to "proactively respond to various challenges brought by the complex external environment."