Last week, the White House announced a 100% Section 232 tariff on large drones and critical components, citing their dual-use applications. The duties are set to take effect on September 3.
Last Friday, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee released a spate of draft laws for public comment. Three of these laws are of particular interest to US companies operating in China: the second draft of the revised Patent Law, the
With a “new infrastructure” initiative in the works and some details on travel to and from China, we’ve got our Shanghai director, Owen Haacke, on the line for a quick roundup of what you need to know this week. Relevant
[The princess’s suitors] were told to cut a slice of moon, or change the ocean into wine. They were set to finding things that never were, and building things that could not be.—James Thurber, “The Thirteen Clocks” (1950) In mathematics, a null set is a category with nothing in it, an empty box. By instructing the […]
Did anything come out of the meeting between Mike Pompeo and Yang Jiechi? For this, and an update on the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing, we get the latest from our director there, Lipei Zhang. Relevant links: Stay up to
