Markets have been trying to “look through” the COVID-19 epidemic, taking solace in figures indicating a deceleration in the rate of new outbreaks and deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic that
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Markets were cheered yesterday by the announcement that China would cut tariffs on $75 billion dollars’ worth of imports from the United States, a step that was agreed to already
China’s Premier Li Keqiang, who has been tasked to lead the novel coronavirus prevention and control task group of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, convened a high-level expert
On Tuesday, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s highest macroeconomic planning agency, submitted its preliminary assessment of the economic impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak to China’s State
On Saturday, the first day of China’s Year of the Rat, President Xi Jinping chaired a meeting in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the
On Monday evening, Zhong Nanshan, a renowned respiratory expert and head of a high-level expert team of the National Health Commission (NHC), reported to Premier Li Keqiang at the State
China’s Vice Premier Liu He hailed the phase-one trade agreement that was signed yesterday in a grand ceremony at the White House with US Donald Trump for having respected China’s
As has been telegraphed for over two months now, with the real breakthrough having come in October, US President Donald Trump and Vice Premier Liu He of China will finally
While applauding the de-escalation of trade tensions with the United States, it should be noted that Chinese officials have maintained, beyond general platitudes, a stony silence on any of the
The 2019 Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC), attended by members of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and including all ministers and provincial leaders, was held at the Jingxi
Chinese officials have just confirmed that there has been enough progress on trade talks with the US that the Trump administration will, as widely expected, refrain from hiking a final
The tone and tenor of China’s upcoming Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC), a closely watched event where Beijing outlines its economic goals and priorities for the next year, was set
Cornered by Congress into signing a Hong Kong bill that was sure to inflame bilateral relations with China, President Donald Trump all but apologized last week to President Xi Jinping
From what we understand, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s trusted son-in-law and advisor, delivered a back-channel message to Beijing following the passage last week of the “Hong Kong Human Rights
Our understanding is that both China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump remain keen on keeping political tensions over Hong Kong on a separate track from ongoing negotiations
Vice Premier Liu He, China’s lead negotiator on trade, held a call with his counterparts, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, on Saturday morning, Beijing
President Donald Trump’s threat yesterday to hike tariffs “substantially” if there is no trade agreement with China soon, and press reports of pushback by hawks within the White House and
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
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
