This past week CTM covered a Chinese Supreme Court ruling on patent/antitrust issues, China joining two IP treaties, developments in several Chinese economic partnerships, and China perhaps being excluded from a TRIPS Waiver; several pieces of U.S. legislation, executive branch actions, and local government decisions; a UK decision

Two British government agencies recently announced that they had approved a nuclear reactor designed by a Chinese firm. However, the company's involvement in this and other nuclear projects in the UK remains unclear, as other British government officials and members of the UK parliament have both been pushing

A new paper by analysts at the Center for Global Development emphasizes the prominent role that lending from Chinese financial institutions plays in Sub-Saharan Africa.

China's food certification agency recently published more details on the implementation of mutual recognition of organic products with New Zealand. On the same day, the New Zealand government also issued a document outlining details for its domestic exporters.

Last month, we wrote about a provision in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for 2020 designed to restrict Chinese-owned companies from selling rail cars or buses to be used in U.S. transit. While doing further research on the example we provided of electric bus purchases in

On Tuesday, Agatha Kratz of the Rhodium Group spoke at a European Parliament hearing and gave a general overview of Chinese foreign investment trends in Europe, as well as related Chinese policies that have affected the trends, and European investment policy tools that could come into play here.

During a recent meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Argentine President Alberto Fernández, the two governments signed multiple documents indicating more collaboration on trade, investment, currency, and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).