In the time since the heated talks with US officials in Anchorage, a series of discussions have been held in Beijing on the “geopolitical situation,” including an assessment of China’s

On his return to Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reported further progress towards one of the top priorities in his just completed trip to the Mideast, to “promote the internationalization

The escalating harsh rhetoric and retaliatory measures between China and the US and the European Union was the backdrop to the visit earlier this week to Beijing by Russian foreign

Neither Beijing nor Washington expects any breakthrough from the talks scheduled for March 18-19 in Anchorage, Alaska between their respective foreign policy leadership teams. *** Rather, the two sides will

China’s “Two Sessions” meetings, or more formally, the Fourth Session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the Fourth Session of the 13th

First things first, a quick mea culpa. In reporting some of the more contentious back and forth in the Saturday call between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China’s

Yang Jiechi, China’s top diplomat, held a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Saturday, marking the highest-level direct talk between China and the United States since

China’s State Council earlier this year reviewed and approved the overall NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission) 2021 major industrial output targets as well as the joint NDRC/MOC (Ministry of

The administration of US President Joseph Biden has announced that it will be reviewing all aspects of the Phase One trade accord with China that was concluded under the Trump

China’s holdings of foreign government bonds in its FX reserves increased by $43.191 billion through 2020, with about 65% of that rise, unadjusted for currency fluctuations, coming from European government

In a message that appears clearly intended to counter increasingly hawkish rate expectations, senior sources from the People’s Bank of China convey that the key short-term interest rates that have

China’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $38.032 billion, or 1.2%, in December of 2020, standing at $3.216522 trillion by the close of the 2020 calendar year and marking the highest

At a panel discussion of the recently concluded Central Economic Work Conference, Yi Huiman, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), delivered a bullish outlook for China’s A-share and

People’s Bank of China sources note a steady flow of capital into Chinese bonds, stocks and investment projects, and expect those inflows to continue next year as the Federal Reserve,

In what appears to be a deliberately timed missive to the markets, officials from the People’s Bank of China noted to us that the offshore Renminbi strengthened beyond the psychologically

The US Congress and the administration of President Donald Trump have been ratcheting up the pressure on China as their respective terms draw to a close: the House of Representatives

On Sunday, November 22, Vice Premier Liu He presided over a meeting in Zhongnanhai of the Financial Stability and Development Committee of the State Council to study how better to

The financial press post-mortems of Beijing’s decision to postpone the highly anticipated Ant IPO have been focused largely on the personal animosity between the firm’s founder Jack Ma and China’s

A senior source from China’s Central National Security Council gave a briefing on background in which he summarized the agency’s analysis of the US election results and offered some broad

A top-level official in China commented on background yesterday on the very tenuous but now likely attempts by Beijing to reset China-US economic and trade relations after the US presidential