Reports Tagged: China

November 04, 2019

China’s President Xi Jinping, from what we understand, provided Vice-Premier Liu He with a detailed message to deliver to Washington on behalf of the Fourth Plenum Session of the 19th

October 24, 2019

At a State Council executive meeting held on Wednesday morning, local time, in Zhongnanhai, we understand that Premier Li Keqiang expressed concerns that China’s foreign trade is likely to experience

October 21, 2019

Senior sources in Beijing maintain that three provinces in China falsified their submissions of Fixed Asset Investment data that went into the official national government statistics last week to exaggerate

October 11, 2019

Well-placed Chinese sources confirm the atmosphere surrounding the first day of high-level trade talks between Vice Premier Liu He, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was

October 08, 2019

On the eve of China’s 70th National Day Anniversary celebrations, Premier Li Keqiang convened a symposium of top leaders that included four current Vice Premiers, as well as four recently

September 30, 2019

The official reaction from Beijing to press reports on Friday that the Trump Administration was looking into measures to curtail listings of Chinese companies on US exchanges, to stop their

September 23, 2019

US equity markets got a boost today on reports that Chinese importers had ordered about 600,000 tons of soybeans from US producers for delivery through the remainder of 2019. **

September 06, 2019

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, when asked in an interview this morning about trade discussions with China, noted that his negotiating counterparts in Beijing had not requested a delay

September 03, 2019

Late last week, US President Donald Trump alluded reassuringly to conversations that were being scheduled to take place that day between the US and Chinese trade negotiating sides. But the

August 26, 2019

Markets are cheering upbeat comments today by US President Donald Trump from the sidelines of the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, in which he is alleging a sudden U-turn from

August 19, 2019

China’s Premier Li Keqiang presided over a State Council Executive Meeting in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, on Friday, the first day back from the traditional Beidaihe summer retreat of China’s top leaders.

August 19, 2019

US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross confirmed today that limited permits for US rural carriers to use and for Google to sell their Android operating system updates to China’s Huawei Technologies

August 16, 2019

In their most recent phone call, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin explained to their counterpart, China’s Vice-Premier Liu He, the Trump administration’s latest plan to

August 12, 2019

Three weeks ago, China’s State Council reviewed and approved the National Development and Reform Commission’s (NDRC) plans for major industrial production output, as well as the joint NDRC/Ministry of Commerce

August 12, 2019

China’s annual National Day celebrations this October 1 will be of particularly symbolic importance to the country and leadership in Beijing this year in that they will commemorate the 70th anniversary

August 07, 2019

Senior Chinese officials vociferously reject the notion that their actions constitute currency manipulation, a label slapped on them by the Trump administration last week, even, they say, according to any of

August 05, 2019

Sources in Beijing maintain that the violent depreciation of the Renminbi below the psychological threshold of 7.000 USD/CNH that is roiling financial markets today has been completely driven by “market

July 30, 2019

China’s Politburo released a bland and rather uninformative statement last night pledging pro-active fiscal policy for the second half of 2019, and monetary policy that will be not too tight,

July 25, 2019

As widely reported in the press, the US and Chinese trade negotiating teams have agreed to meet again next Tuesday and Wednesday, July 30-31, in Shanghai. Twice burned by tariff

July 15, 2019

China will, from what we understand, release the names of US firms on its unreliable entities list within the next two weeks in response to the announcement of another round