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Week in Review: Election Nears, the Fate of Phase One, and Congress Demands Industry Action on Xinjiang

Next week, the United States will elect its next president, recommitting to President Donald Trump for another 4 years or deciding to change course with a new administration under former Vice President Joe Biden. All 435 seats in the House, and a third (33) of those in the Senate are also up for...

China Releases Priorities for the Next Five-Year Plan at Annual Party Meeting

On October 29, China’s Communist Party Central Committee concluded the Fifth Plenum of the 19th Party Congress, a meeting of senior party leadership, and approved priorities for the next 5 years. The Central Committee met from October 26 to 29 to discuss the 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP), outlining...

NPCSC Passes New Export Control Law and Patent Law Amendments

On October 17, the 13th National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) concluded its 22nd session by adopting seven bills. These include amendments to the Patent Law, National Flag Law, National Emblem Law, Election Law, and Minors Protection Law, as well as a new Export Control Law and...

China Launches Renewed Push to Develop Strategic Emerging Industries

With tightened US export controls threatening to cut China off from certain US technologies, China is accelerating efforts to develop its own high-tech industries. On September 25, four ministries jointly published Guiding Opinions on Expanding Investment in Strategic Emerging Industries and...

US Controls on Emerging Technologies Are Trending Multilateral and Specific

Since the implementation of the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) of 2018, the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued new controls on 37 “emerging technologies.” The majority of these controls have been implemented under multilateral regimes, harmonizing the...

Draft Personal Information Protection Law: Call for Comments

On October 21, the National People’s Congress released the draft Personal Information Protection Law (New America translation available here) for public comment until November 19. The draft contains eight chapters and 70 articles spanning cross-border data transfers, the rights of personal...

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Newly released Pew research data shows increasingly unfavorable views towards China in the US. Laura Silver, Senior Researcher at Pew Research Center talks us through their latest polling data. 

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