World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says she has been “heartened” by China’s commitment to revitalizing the multilateral trading system, insisting the country is “central” to reform at the World Trade Organization (WTO), reported the<div class="excerpt-more"><a href="https://ccilc.pt/en/imprensa/wto-chief-china-central-to-trade-reform/" class="more-link"> […] <span class="screen-reader-text">WTO chief: China central to trade reform</span></a></div>

China’s most senior foreign policy official, Yang Jiechi, has told the US that it isn’t qualified to “speak from a position of strength” when criticising China. The exchange took place in the first high-level talks<div class="excerpt-more"><a href="https://ccilc.pt/en/imprensa/china-says-us-cannot-speak-from-a-position-of-strength/" class="more-link"> […] <span class="screen-reader-text">China says US cannot speak from ‘a position of strength’</span></a></div>

China’s local governments had 14.8 trillion yuan ($2.3 trillion) of hidden debt last year, and the figure could climb even further this year, according to a government-linked think tank. Local governments were under pressure to<div class="excerpt-more"><a href="https://ccilc.pt/en/imprensa/chinas-2-3-trillion-hidden-debt-could-climb-even-further/" class="more-link"> […] <span class="screen-reader-text">China’s $2.3 Trillion Hidden Debt Could Climb Even Further</span></a></div>

China’s digital economy maintained rapid growth during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), with an annual average growth of more than 16.6 percent, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). MIIT data<div class="excerpt-more"><a href="https://ccilc.pt/en/imprensa/chinas-digital-economy-sees-continued-growth/" class="more-link"> […] <span class="screen-reader-text">China’s digital economy sees continued growth</span></a></div>

For the first decades of global wrangling about climate change, China’s foot-dragging caused alarm. Its self-interested approach to climate action—once summarised by a Beijing-based diplomat as seeking “maximum credit for the minimum effort”—frustrated governments that<div class="excerpt-more"><a href="https://ccilc.pt/en/imprensa/china-and-america-talk-of-co-operating-on-climate-it-will-be-hard/" class="more-link"> […] <span class="screen-reader-text">China and America talk of co-operating on climate. It will be hard</span></a></div>

The U.S. State Department announced today that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will meet China’s ranking diplomat Yang Jiechi (his formal title is director of the Office of the<div class="excerpt-more"><a href="https://ccilc.pt/en/imprensa/9468/" class="more-link"> […] <span class="screen-reader-text">Biden Administration Announces First China Meeting</span></a></div>