China Pulse Digest

Trade and Economic Shifts

• 🔥 US Ag Market Access Restored: China resumed U.S. poultry imports and restored beef market access while committing...

No significant updates today.

No significant updates today.

Policy and Trade Developments

• 🔥 China-Serbia Trade Expansion: Premier Li stated China is willing to further unlock the potential of the...

China's clean energy transition reveals a sharp split: solar installations crater while storage capacity races ahead.

• Solar additions fell 79% in...

A Chinese coast guard ship withdrew after a tense two-day standoff near Taiwan's Pratas Islands, following radio warnings and verbal clashes over...

Huawei's Tau Scaling Law and LogicFolding architecture aim to deliver 1.4nm-class transistor density by 2031 without EUV tools, applied already to 381...

Chinese ownership of lithium assets is rising even as global production diversifies geographically.

• Firms on track to control 39% of world lithium...

China is converting Hainan into a southern carrier hub that opens a "back door" into the Pacific, shifting away from the heavily watched waters...

France is heading a five-nation EU bloc urging Brussels to expand tariffs and trade defenses against Chinese industrial overcapacity and unfair...

China stands ready to unlock more potential from its free trade deal with Serbia, boosting imports of Serbian goods and Chinese investment in AI, new energy and green sectors while advancing the Hungary-Serbia railway.

China is pressuring Japan—Washington’s key Pacific ally—by complaining directly to Trump about Tokyo’s rising defense spending while choking rare...

Hong Kong stocks face heavy selling pressure after Beijing's crackdown on illegal cross-border trading, putting $30 billion in investments at risk and...

Maritime Security Escalations

• 🔥 China Deploys 100+ Vessels: Taiwan security officials reported China deployed more than 100 navy, coast guard,...

The summit produced concrete commercial wins that could stabilize parts of US-China economic ties.

• Agriculture: China committed to at least $17B in...

China is channeling more coal into chemicals and gas production as a strategic domestic feedstock amid high oil and gas prices.

• Coal-to-chemicals...

China is systematically restricting outbound AI technology and talent while enforcement tightens on the inbound smuggling side.

• Beijing blocked...

China's surveillance machine now fuses camera feeds, ticket purchases, mobile payments and social networks into predictive "holographic profiles" that...

China deployed over 100 navy, coast guard and research vessels across waters from the Yellow Sea to the South China Sea and western Pacific, with the...

• Battery leaps: CATL's condensed cells deliver up to 1,500 km range, while BYD, NIO, Xiaomi and XPENG models hit 1,000+ km with semi-solid-state...