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According to a recent report by the Mercator Institute for China Studies, Chinese investment into Europe hit a seven-year high in 2025, reaching EUR 16.8 billion.[1] Yet this scale of investment is colliding with a rapidly hardening EU policy stance on trade with China that will structurally restrict how Chinese companies access the European market. While global attention tends to remain fixated on Sino–US trade relations, equally disruptive tensions are brewing with Brussels

President Donald Trump's two-day state visit to Beijing on 14 and 15 May was the first by a sitting US president in nearly nine years. Ahead of the visit, expectations of significant progress was limited, with neither side signalling any appetite or having political headroom for reconciliation on the most contentious issues between the two countries.

Hong Kong, 25 March 2026: SEC Newgate China, part of the global corporate affairs advisory group SEC Newgate, today announced the appointment of May Lee as Associate Partner, further strengthening the firm’s public affairs advisory capability. May is an experienced public affairs professional specialising in public policy, government relations, and stakeholder engagement across government, statutory, non-profit and emerging technology sectors. Based in Hong Kong, she advises