During a recent webinar hosted at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), several academic China trade policy experts discussed, among other things, how the economic conflict between China and the West is rooted in different political and economic models, and how resolving the conflict will require a better understanding

Yesterday, the WTO announced [https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/SS/directdoc.aspx?filename=q:/WT/DS/598-6.pdf&Open=True] that on September 3, the WTO Director-General had composed the panel in the WTO complaint brought by Australia [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/australias-wto-complaint-against-

On August 27, MOFCOM issued notices to extend anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on certain U.S. chemical products. The ongoing investigations, both launched in 2020, have now been extended for six months. With regard to the CVD investigation, MOFCOM stated [http://www.mofcom.gov.cn/article/zwgk/zcfb/

On September 2, the Trade Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade met with three witnesses who supported Taiwan joining the CPTPP as part of its inquiry on " Expanding Membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

In late July, we wrote about [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/usitc-institutes-section-337-investigation-on-silicon-photovoltaic-cells-and-modules/] the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to institute a Section 337 investigation [https://www.usitc.gov/intellectual_property/about_section_337.htm] of certain silicon photovoltaic

On September 2, the WTO circulated a panel report [https://www.worldtradelaw.net/document.php?id=reports/wtopanels/us-photovoltaicsafeguards(panel).pdf] in a complaint brought by China against U.S. safeguard measures on certain solar products, in which the panel found that the U.S. measures do not violate

Qin Gang, the new Chinese Ambassador to the United States, gave a speech [http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zmgxss/t1903557.htm] at an August 31 event held by the National Committee on US-China Relations. It was characterized by one U.S. publication [https://www.politico.com/news/2021/