Recently, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued new measures for the registration of foreign companies in China, in which the government emphasizes the principle of pre-establishment national treatment for foreign companies in the process of registration. The new rules will take effect next month.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) recently reviewed and approved a transaction involving a significant Chinese investment stake in a small U.S. producer of recreational planes. This piece examines the background of the transaction and implications from the CFIUS decision.

The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has paused lending in Russian and Belarus due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This past week CTM covered the following issues: * China's responses and positions on sanctions on Russia * Chinese import measures, general support for trade, and the CPTPP application * Infrastructure and development grant rivalries between China and the West * Statements and proposed legislation by members of U.S. Congress and

Senators John Kennedy (R-LA), Rick Scott (R-FL) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) have introduced the Deterring Communist Chinese Aggression Against Taiwan Through Financial Sanctions Act, which would sanction China if it were to invade or blockade Taiwan.

A bipartisan group of members of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) have sent a letter to HSBC, a "British multinational investment bank and financial services company," raising "questions and concerns about HSBC’s business practices in Hong Kong and globally, including restrictions placed on the