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
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
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
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
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
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
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. **
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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