Last week, a UK government department slightly modified the deadlines for its telecoms companies to remove Huawei products from its 5G network.

Chinese President Xi's keynote address at the opening of the 20th Communist Party Congress touched on trade-related issues such as development, technology, supply chains, and the Belt and Road Initiative. While he mentioned "expanding institutional opening up," he also emphasized "self-reliance in high-level technology."

Last week, the EU issued a decision that extends existing anti-dumping duties on sodium cyclamate from China (and Indonesia as well). As part of its reasoning in the case, the European Commission considered the role of the CCP in the management of the Chinese companies under investigation in the context

In a move that is in part due to political pressure, Apple has paused a plan to use chips from China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) in some of its iPhones.

Taiwanese government officials and representatives of tech companies visited the United States last week to boost bilateral collaboration on 5G, semiconductors, and renewable energy. The Taiwanese government estimated that the trip would generate nearly 1 billion USD worth of R&D investment and new orders for Taiwanese businesses.

At a recent think tank event in Washington DC, experts discussed the economic impact of the China shock, especially on the U.S. economy. While they had differing views on the level of the actual impact, all of them considered that a greater level of some form of government intervention

Three Members of the European Parliament have sent a letter to a French government official to express concern about Strasbourg airport's deal to buy baggage-scanning equipment made by Chinese state-owned company Nuctech.