Lawfare from China

Laws to target foreign companies, China enjoys the U.S retreat from the world, mixed economic messages, and more.

Xi Jinping lectures villagers and local officials in Guizhou last week. Image source: This Week in Rural China.

This is The China Week, a succinct roundup of what happened in the world’s other superpower in the last seven days.

The main story this week is about China’s new legal tools to punish foreign (which mostly means American) organizations that enact sanctions or other punitive economic measures on Chinese government organizations and companies. But our second story today is also really noteworthy: traditional allies of the U.S. are lining up to meet Xi Jinping and other senior Chinese leaders, in search of stability as the Trump and Musk government nuke the post-World War II order.

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