On June 30, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (the “Standing Committee”) in the People’s Republic of China (“China”) unanimously passed The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National...more
Following the decision taken by China’s National People’s Congress to adopt a new national security law (the “Security Law”) for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“Hong Kong”) on May 28, the Standing Committee of...more
- The Facility-Specific Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRLM) in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) establishes an entirely new streamlined approach to labor dispute settlement in free trade agreements under...more
The National People’s Congress in China has today adopted a resolution paving the way for a new national security law to apply to Hong Kong.
The law is expected to focus on the prevention and punishment of secession, the...more
On Sunday, September 30, President Trump reached an agreement with the governments of Canada and Mexico to revise and modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Publishing the text of the new agreement just...more
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington D.C. led to a very significant agreement on cybersecurity, as reflected by The White House fact sheet released Friday (excerpted below). The agreement addresses a core U.S....more