In a recent ruling by a jury in Texas, U.S. conglomerate Textron, which runs aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses, won a patent infringement lawsuit against DJI, a Chinese commercial drone maker.

At the WTO's DSB meeting last Friday, the U.S., Hong Kong, and China all offered comments on issues underlying the recent WTO panel report that found U.S. origin marking requirements related to products from Hong Kong to be in violation of WTO rules.

Multiple Chinese trade and industry associations expressed their opposition to new Japanese export control rules over the weekend, calling them "discriminatory" and a violation of WTO rules.

In a new article in the Asian Center for WTO Law & International Health Law and Policy, a Chinese legal scholar examines the issues and challenges facing China in the modernization of its international investment agreements (IIAs).

Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa announced last week that Argentina agreed to make payments for Chinese imports in Yuan rather than U.S. dollars, in an effort to maintain its reserves of U.S. dollars.

Last week, Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and eight other Republican Senators sent a letter urging several Biden administration officials "to impose sanctions and take other decisive actions against Huawei Cloud and other People’s Republic of China (PRC) cloud service providers that pose a threat to U.S. national

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In China: * Agreements on trade and investment with Gabon * Imports authorized from France and Nicaragua * Anti-monopoly review of COSCO joint venture in Egypt * Positive statements from Chinese officials on China joining CPTPP * Podcast on Chinese industrial policy In the U.S.: * Senior