President Trump signed an executive order to review existing tariffs and duties on Chinese goods to ensure they are strong enough to stop the cheating. Dumping occurs when a country subsidizes the production of a good in order to flood another country with cheap goods to crater their domestic production capacity. The industries under attack represent the backbone of American industry: steel, aluminum, automobiles, critical minerals, fertilizer, food products, lumber, textiles, furniture and chemicals.

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EU and China will launch a new trade and investment consultation platform to streamline communications. EU's trade deficit with China widened 15 per cent year on year in May. German car giant Volkswagen was planning up to 100,000 job cuts in the face of cutthroat Chinese competition. EU trade officials have already started laying the ground for offensive and defensive action.

Brussels is worried about growing trade imbalances between the EU and China. China is the EU's second-largest trading partner. China's commerce minister will meet his EU counterpart Maros Sefcovic in Brussels on Monday. China has warned it will retaliate against any EU trade measures it considers unfair.

This week he has been in the city of Hangzhou in China for a workshop. Marco Polo called Hangzhou the ‘City of Heaven’ in the 12th century. Since then, the economy has grown spectacularly and hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty. This growth has had its costs, such as dense urbanisation and pollution. The new affluence seen in shopping malls pulls on invisible planetary supply chains.

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China's Ministry of Commerce added 20 Japanese entities to its blacklist of companies barred from receiving dual-use items with potential military applications. It also added 20 organisations to its watch list of entities required to submit a risk assessment and a written assurance that their exports will not contribute to Japan’s military capabilities. China and Japan have an uneasy relationship due to historical and territorial disputes.

In recent years, China has become a biotech innovator, accounting for 34% of roughly 14,088 new drugs in global clinical development. China is now contributing to 40% of new drugs entering clinical stage each year. China’s out-licensing deals rose nearly tenfold from 2021 to 2025, to an record $137.7 billion.