China retaliates to EU ban with import restrictions on medical devices reuters.com/business/healt…

How Europe Got Stuck Between Xi’s China and Trump’s America: EU officials will attend a summit with China in late July. Tensions are high, hopes are low and stability is the end game nytimes.com/2025/07/06/wor… via @NYTimes

“The reality of this conflict turned out to be that Russia and China didn’t run to Iran’s rescue,” said Alexander Gabuev, the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. “That just exposes the limitations of the whole ‘axis’ idea.” nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/… via @NYTimes

Why China Isn’t a Bigger Player in the Middle East theatlantic.com/international/…

Achieving dominance in rare earths came with a heavy cost for China, which largely tolerated severe environmental damage for many years nytimes.com/2025/07/05/bus… via @NYTimes

Momentum is building in Taiwan to lessen its business dependency on China. Doing so will not be easy nytimes.com/2025/07/07/bus… via @NYTimes

“For China, ‘strategic stalemate’ is the most realistic and preferred outcome in the foreseeable future,” said Minxin Pei. “Strategic patience, conservation of resources and tactical flexibility will all be critical in achieving this stalemate.” wsj.com/world/china/ch…

Founders described choosing between two paths for growth: Take government funding and tailor their product to the Chinese market, or raise enough money on their own to set up offices in a country like Singapore. For most, the first was the only option nytimes.com/2025/07/06/tec…

As Tesla falls behind the local competitors it helped create, the billionaire’s rupture with Trump is limiting his value to Beijing wsj.com/business/autos…

The Chinese military employed a laser targeting a German aircraft in the EU operation #ASPIDES. Endangering German personnel & disrupting the operation is entirely unacceptable. The Chinese ambassador was summoned to the Federal Foreign Office today.

Germany summoned the Chinese ambassador to the foreign ministry on Tuesday after saying China's military had laser targeted a German aircraft taking part in an EU operation in the Red Sea. reuters.com/business/aeros…

First Motorola, then Apple, and now Tesla have served as invaluable teachers. They taught China how to make phones and cars and build the supply chains that feed them. Now, the lesson is over. … The student has become the new master wsjchina.cmail20.com/t/d-e-surjhdy-…

Germany's Foreign Office has summoned the China‘s ambassador to protest after a Chinese warship used a laser against a German military aircraft in the Red Sea. "The endangerment of German personnel" is "completely unacceptable," the ministry said euronews.com/2025/07/08/ger…

Germany accuses China of laser targeting aircraft in EU mission reuters.com/business/aeros…

Germany’s Foreign Office has summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest after a Chinese warship used a laser against a German aircraft in the Red Sea. The surveillance plane was part of the EU mission Aspides against attacks by Houthi rebels based in Yemen apnews.com/article/german…

“China has an entirely different system,” vdL said. It has unique instruments „to play outside the rules,” allowing it “to flood global markets with subsidized overcapacity — not just to boost its own industries, but to choke international competition.” politico.eu/article/eu-chi…

China’s producer prices see worst drop in nearly two years cnbc.com/2025/07/09/chi…

China is practicing orbital warfare to win in space. „Chairman Xi is preparing the PLA to fight and win wars in space, he is leveraging the industrial base of China to help him succeed, and he is planning well in advance“ spacenews.com/china-is-pract…

Von der Leyen sets stage for contentious China summit: “If our partnership is to go forward, we need a genuine rebalancing.” politico.eu/article/ursula…

China toughens security 10 years after '709' crackdown: „The Chinese government under Xi Jinping has sought to eradicate the influence of lawyers who defend people's rights while compelling the rest of the legal profession to serve the party's agenda." asia.nikkei.com/Politics/China…