China Signs 26 Free Trade Agreements With 33 Countries and Regions

The scale of China's FTA network is the real signal here: nearly half of its trade and most of its inbound investment now flows through preferential channels, which makes the network a structural feature of Chinese commerce rather than a diplomatic talking point. For cross-border and RWA markets, the relevant question is whether these treaty frameworks become the legal plumbing for digital trade and settlement corridors, since preferential agreements increasingly set the rules that tokenized flows must fit. The open question is how much of this architecture is designed to route around Western financial infrastructure, and whether future agreements extend to digital or tokenized trade provisions.