Last month, the Taliban government in Afghanistan officially announced the termination of a 25-year oil extraction contract with Chinese investors, which was the first major foreign investment deal signed by the Taliban since regaining power in 2021.

Following up on an earlier inquiry, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a new inquiry into TikTok's practices related to the transfer of European user data to China.

In a ruling on Friday, a U.S. district court judge granted summary judgment to the U.S. government in a lawsuit by Hesai Technology, an electronics company headquartered in Shanghai, that argued it had been wrongly placed on a U.S. government blacklist.

The Canadian government has ordered Chinese tech company Hikvision, a major surveillance equipment manufacturer, to close its operations in Canada, citing national security concerns.

The Trump administration has rejected a request by printing and imaging company Ninestar to be taken off the UFLPA Entity List. The company and the administration are currently trying to work out a way forward in the matter.

A legal challenge to the Trump administration's ending of the de minimis exemption for most imports from China and Hong Kong is playing out in the U.S. Court of International Trade, with both parties having now filed legal briefs.

One day after the U.S. Court of International Trade found all of the Trump administration's tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to be illegal, a second court issued a ruling that had the same effect but went even further in its reasoning, finding that