We have covered this ground before but below is a reiteration of China’s position on Iran. Importantly this, from a senior Chinese official in Beijing, confirms tweets released today by US
US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent will lead a delegation to Seoul tomorrow, Tuesday, through Wednesday to hold final economic and trade consultations with a delegation led by China’s
US President Donald Trump formally informed China’s President Xi Jinping that he will pay a state visit to China as scheduled on May 14-15, regardless of the outcome of negotiations
Senior Chinese officials maintain that as of last weekend, China’s President Xi Jinping had not spoken directly with US President Donald Trump by phone or exchanged letters but did confirm
The sixth round of China-US economic and trade talks was held in Paris from Sunday to Monday morning (March 15-16). On his return to Beijing, Vice Premier He Lifeng described
On February 13, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi met with his US counterpart Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Munich and relayed that President Xi Jinping welcomes President Donald Trump’s
A brief note on Beijing’s targets in advancing the role of the RMB (renminbi) as a global alternative to the US dollar, with a plan for continued gradual strategic reductions
The weekend purge of General Zhang Youxia from China’s supreme, 4-person Central Military Commission (CMC) that includes President Xi Jinping on charges of selling nuclear secrets to the United States
We will skip over the expressions of shock, accusations of lawless hegemony, and other such to-be-expected denunciations coming from China of the Trump administration’s daring capture and extradition to the
A very brief update to our note from last Thursday (SGH 12/11/25; “China: The Chips Race”): On Friday, White House AI Czar David Sacks was reported to have said that
The concluding three-day 2025 Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) meetings held at the Jiangxi Hotel in Beijing, aimed at setting China’s guiding principles and development goals for economic work in
According to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planning agency, China’s economy continued on a steady growth path in October. In light of the most recent
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
