Strong Trade Growth; Alibaba Reacts to New Media Regulations; China-US Financial Roundtable; Xi-Biden Virtual Summit and FOCAC; China's Satellite-to-Earth Quantum Communication; Unicorns.

Intelligence and Insights on China's government actions, foreign policy, economy, and the capital markets.

Trade flows, summits, and technological frontiers

Encouraging trade data rounds out the economic picture for China, which has been beset by nagging productivity issues as of late — not least a protracted power crunch.

Though there’s hype over an anticipated virtual summit between the world’s two superpowers, observers may be overlooking an equally importa…