This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China's market regulators have unveiled a draft overhaul of the E-Commerce Law, creating new legal mechanisms to retaliate against foreign governments and penalize overseas companies that harm Chinese commercial interests. Trade data shows that China's exports of

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. Beijing issued a new set of rules governing how companies assess data security risks and introducing a full-chain state oversight especially for operators that process important data. Following a burst of high-level diplomacy, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM)

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China launched a two-front regulatory offensive against the U.S. defense sector, placing 10 American entities on an export control blacklist while barring 46 U.S. firms from participating in domestic government procurement. The move represents countermeasures in response to the

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) downplayed fears of a "full-blown" trade war with the EU, stating that trade communications remain "smooth" and that Brussels has explicitly indicated that a trade war is not its goal.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China’s new Provisions on the Protection of Trade Secrets, effective this month, mark a major overhaul of the administrative trade secret regime, by expanding protections to include algorithms, source code, and "failed" experimental data, and asserting new extraterritorial powers.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. China has overhauled its outbound investment regime to enhance national security oversight and arm itself with stronger retaliatory legal tools. The update also creates an explicit legal nexus between cross-border investments and existing data, export control, and technology transfer rules. The

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. Following a high-stakes summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin. The back-to-back summits underscore China's delicate balancing act. China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) revised its control