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Insight Brief

21 September 2026

Insight Brief — 2026-09-21

  1. Beijing objects to a new US law on secondary sanctions over Russia and Iran while its trade delegation is in Washington.
  2. China rejects reported voluntary limits on its hybrid-car exports to Europe as a WTO breach, days after Brussels moved on electrical steel.
  3. Beijing drafts online protections for minors, the third government in a week to act on children online, after Brussels and Brasília.
  4. North Korea fires ballistic missiles twice in one afternoon; Tokyo issues prime-ministerial instructions after each and analyses them with Washington and Seoul.
  5. The EU and EBRD open a $25 million trade line for Iraq a week after its prime minister toured Berlin and Paris