China provides 98 per cent of the minerals needed to power a clean economy, top official says.

MEPs accuse Brussels of ignoring concerns over China’s labour conditions, the crackdown in Hong Kong and ‘showing the middle finger’ to the new administration in the US.

Brussels’ foreign policy leader says the situation in the city ‘keeps deteriorating’ but did not introduce any new sanctions.

The WTO has granted Hong Kong’s second request to form a dispute panel against a Trump-era order that forces the city’s locally made goods to be labelled ‘Made in China’.

Booming commercial ties between the European Union and China’s Xinjiang region have left Brussels facing quandary: how to be tough on alleged rights abuses while balancing precious economic interests.

Meeting could allow vaccine diplomacy and Beijing to reassert influence as US returns to multilateral stage under Joe Biden, but the bloc has lost some appeal.

South Korean candidate Yoo Myung-hee withdrew her bid to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday, clearing the way for Nigerian candidate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

British regulator Ofcom says ‘licence holders cannot be controlled by political bodies’.

The British parliament continues to move towards reforming trade law that would restrict dealings with countries considered to have committed genocide.

The European Union says it will not give up ‘protections’ pertaining to 5G, forced labour, and foreign investment as part of its new investment deal with China.

Hong Kong vowed to sue the US after former president Donald Trump changed export status in response to Beijing’s imposition of national security law.

Even bumper sales of soybeans, pork and beef, plus market access for a range of other products, could not get China close to purchase targets laid out in phase-one agreement.

Red packets, Rolexes and razor-thin margins: for some Chinese factories, passing a one-off audit can be the difference between life and death.

Xinjiang’s exports to the US rose by 116 per cent in 2020, led by strong sales of wind turbines, some chemicals and Christmas decorations.

The Chinese economy officially grew by 2.3 per cent in 2020, but some analysts point to unsustainable nature of China’s dramatic rebound.

China’s coronavirus-hit economy expanded by 2.3 per cent in 2020, but its recovery from the coronavirus was highlighted by a growth rate of 6.5 per cent in the fourth quarter.

A late addition to the EU-China investment deal would have allowed Beijing to retaliate for restrictions on Huawei and ZTE, but appears to have been struck out.

China’s Caixin/Markit manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) fell in December, while sentiment in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea improved, suggesting Asia-Pacific may remain an engine for global growth in 2021.

China has retained control in key sectors such as automotive and aviation, prompting some pundits to suggest that Europe’s struggling economy amid the coronavirus pandemic weakened its negotiating position.

China will retain tight control over key sectors of its economy under a new investment deal with the EU, despite broadly opening its market to European firms, a leaked draft text shows.

Vietnam has reaped the benefit of the US-China trade war, but two separate US probes into timber trade and currency have sent ripples of anxiety through the furniture industry.

In America’s absence, China has been strengthening its economic hand in Southeast Asia, and this looks to make the region increasingly important amid broader trade disputes.

Katherine Tai is a Mandarin speaker who led US trade enforcement on China during time with Office of the United States Trade Representative.