At the Global CEO Council meeting in Beijing, Premier Li Keqiang and global business leaders renewed their vows to work together to build China's economy, despite gathering clouds in the U.S.-China trade war.

The Shanghai and London stock exchanges’ connect program has finally launched; new rules have been introduced to limit speculative trading of stocks on China’s new technology and innovation board; and the CSRC has urged major brokerages in the China to help smaller operations in the country's non-banking financial sector.

A change in the legal environment of the personal data receiving country will trigger a new security assessment, the CSRC is to revise measures to achieve quality restructurings of listed companies and trademark registration fees are largely reduced.

The Shanghai-London Stock Connect program has finally started, with Chinese brokerage Huatai Securities raising $1.5 billion in its debut listing.

Repayment sequence is clarified for bankruptcy cases

Alibaba files for Hong Kong listing that could raise $20 billion; China's state planner will encourage more debt-to-equity swaps; insurers likely to be allowed to up investments in Chinese A-shares; and official proposes beefing up penalties for IP violations.

Baker McKenzie and FenXun Partners discuss the impact of the new Foreign Investment Law on the repeal of FIE laws on existing FIEs, as well as the implications of other important provisions for foreign investors and FIEs in future.

China's impending release of its "Unreliable List" of foreign firms may be a retaliatory tool in its escalating trade war with the U.S.

The Q2 issue is here. And we have some news.