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.
This calendar includes key diplomatic engagements, international summits, trade fairs, economic forums, and policy milestones that will shape bilateral relations between the US and China throughout the year. Events range from USCBC-hosted conferences and Chinese government meetings to multilateral gatherings such as APEC, G7, and G20 summits, offering stakeholders a strategic planning tool for navigating the evolving US-China landscape.
This tracker monitors direct diplomatic interactions between the United States and China, documenting high-level meetings, phone calls, and official visits between American and Chinese government officials, starting with the second Trump administration.
This tracker monitors trade and economic actions between the United States and China from January 2025 to present. It documents tariffs, export controls, investigations, entity list additions, and other trade-related measures announced by both governments, providing announcement dates, effective dates, sources, and summaries of each action. The tracker is regularly updated to help members stay informed about the evolving US-China trade relationship.
The export controls and sanctions tracker lists all active Commerce, Treasury, and State Department export controls aimed at China—including Hong Kong. This tracker is updated regularly and an archived tab will be added in the future as entities and individuals are removed from US government blacklists.
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.
As Beijing promotes openness abroad, its domestic AI regulatory landscape paints a more complex picture. Over the past few years, regulators have sought to catch up with and rein in AI, aiming to build a “brake system” for the fast-advancing technology.
USCBC conducted a flash survey in July to gauge companies’ experience navigating the US export licensing regime under the second Trump administration. The 31 respondents — primarily representing the technology, industrial and manufacturing, energy, and healthcare industries — painted a stark picture of licensing delays and unclear procedures, unwillingness of export control agencies to engage with industry, and unnecessarily burdensome policies and out-of-date regulations.
The Federal Communications Commission last Tuesday added foreign-produced robots and power inverters to its Covered List, citing concerns over the security of technology and energy infrastructure. Placement on the list bars products from sale in the United States. The restrictions do not explicitly identify any country but primarily affect Chinese industry, including Unitree Robotics and over 150 other Chinese humanoid robotics companies, as well as leading power inverter manufacturers Huawei and Sungrow.
China’s five-year plan (FYP) to build a new energy system held few surprises, but the scale of the decades-long transformation is profound. For companies, the implementing policies that follow this and other FYPs on carbon peaking and renewable energy will be most consequential, such as new power price market reforms that impact companies’ electricity bills starting next month.
At the Lujiazui Forum last month, China Securities Regulatory Commission Chairman Wu Qing outlined a package of capital market reforms aimed at deepening finance for “hard tech” and AI-driven innovation.
