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The hearing provides an overview of Europe-China relations, including China's view of Europe, European views of China, and perspectives on China from Germany and the Czech Republic; and evaluates European approaches to addressing China in the economic and technological domains and on strategic issues, while comparing these approaches to those of the United States and exploring the space for further Transatlantic cooperation.
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The hearing examines how the CCP views law and its ambitions to promote those views internationally, uses case studies to assess China's subversion of international laws and norms and violation of its treaty obligations and the consequences in various domains of international law, and considers how the U.S. court system treats the interpretation of Chinese law and enforcement of Chinese judgements, as well as the Chinese court systems attempts to influence and prevent parallel litigation in other jurisdictions.
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Key Events and Statements Summarizing China’s Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine from February 21, 2022 onward.
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This Issue Brief details the challenges posed by Chinese “fast fashion” platforms, including exploitation of trade loopholes; concerns about production processes, sourcing relationships, product safety, and use of forced labor; and violations of intellectual property rights. These platforms primarily rely on U.S. consumers downloading and using Chinese apps to curate and deliver products.
The primary focus of this Issue Brief is first mover Shein, about which the most data is available, with additional discussion of Temu, which has rapidly expanded its U.S. market presence in the past year. These firms commercial success has encouraged both established Chinese e-commerce platforms and startups to copy its model, posing risks and challenges to U.S. regulations, laws, and principles of market access.
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The hearing assesses China's motivations and policies for defense modernization, including overviews of its military procurement process and military-civil fusion strategy; evaluates how China is pursuing new materials, components, and technologies to address longstanding obstacles in domains such as space, aviation, and undersea warfare, as well as to gain supremacy in new domains such as artificial intelligence; and provides a forward-looking assessment of how Congress, the Administration, and U.S. allies and partners could improve export controls and investment screening to control technology flows to China for use in advanced weapons.
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The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission invites submission of proposals to provide a concise, one-time unclassified report on China’s censorship practices.
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The hearing reviews case studies of China's influence and interference activities in Taiwan, fellow Five Eyes countries, and the developing world; evaluates how China influences and interferes with foreign countries' political, educational, economic, and media systems to achieve its strategic objectives; and examines China's unique approach to foreign influence in the form of “united front work” as well as the party-state organizations tasked with carrying it out.
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On February 24, General Secretary Xi Jinping did not make an expected “peace speech” to mark the first anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
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This staff research report explores the “one-stop shop” dispute resolution center for Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-related commercial disputes. The report concludes with implications for the United States.