Chinese sources have provided the following version and details of the trade negotiations between US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and China’s Vice-Premier He Lifeng that concluded Sunday afternoon

China’s Premier Li Qiang, other State Council leaders, and senior officials of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (CFEAC) took only the first four days off during China’s Super

Without having taken any significant steps to address or even acknowledge its role in turning a blind eye to – and thus abetting – the export of precursors of fentanyl from

Xi-Trump Meeting China and the US have been holding consultations regarding the upcoming meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump in Gyeongju, South Korea on the sidelines of

Beijing has keyed off Wall Street and US President Donald Trump’s eagerness to conclude a Tik Tok ownership deal with China and, dangling its control over rare earth exports and

There has been some speculation in Western media outlets that China may be considering launching an RMB (renminbi) backed stablecoin and that the State Council will review and possibly approve

Following a Saturday phone call by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, to brief China on the Russia-US summit, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin personally called

China’s Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (CFEAC) held two days of meetings in Beidaihe on Thursday and Friday (August 7-8) to discuss and review a draft for “The 15th

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin called China’s President Xi Jinping to secure Beijing’s backing one day after receiving US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and a few hours before

The Communist Party of China’s Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission (CFEAC) held the 3rd of its eight summer meetings in Zhongnanhai on the morning of Thursday, July 31. President Xi Jinping,

Some interesting comments from an economic official in China in the run-up to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s meeting next week in Stockholm with his Chinese counterpart, Vice-Premier He Lifeng,

Rumors have been swirling over the past few weeks that China’s President Xi Jinping, after a breathtaking consolidation of power not seen since the days of Mao Zedong, is facing

At a meeting on Monday, June 23, China’s top decision-making body, the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, endorsed “the framework for implementation of the Geneva trade

After yesterday’s call between US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping, China’s Ministry of Commerce apparently plans to approve a small amount of rare earth exports – something

Despite important diplomatic signaling in inviting each other to visit their respective countries, and the equally important agreement to resume trade negotiations at senior levels, we suspect the call today between US

China’s lead negotiator with the United States, Vice Premier He Lifeng, has told his colleagues in Beijing that US President Donald Trump appears ready to discuss “all major issues” with

Our understanding is that Chinese officials are in discussions with their US counterparts to schedule a resumption of formal trade talks on or around June 10. For signaling purposes, they

From a senior Chinese economic official, Sunday evening, Beijing time: [President Donald] Trump’s hope to reach a trade deal with China in three to four weeks is…absolutely impossible…President Xi will

China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will release Q1 2025 GDP data tonight US Eastern time, Tuesday morning local time with press conference to follow at 10:00 am. The release

There has been a good deal of speculation in markets over whether the recent runup in US treasury yields can be attributed among other things (basis trade unwind, dollar weakness,