President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the powerful Central National Security Commission of the Communist Party of China on Wednesday, July 3, to assess and review the country’s
Markets have responded with cheer to the de-escalation of trade tensions between the US and China after the G20 meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Osaka this
US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will finally settle in for their much anticipated 90-minute lunch tomorrow at the G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, to discuss
Chinese officials still hold low expectations for the G20 meeting in easing trade tensions between China and the United States, and have yet to commit to or formally discuss prospects for a summit between
Over the weekend, Beijing published a 16-page “White Paper” on the official Xinhua news website summarizing China’s position and its interpretation of the escalating trade dispute with the United States.
On Monday, May 20, we warned clients that China’s Premier Li Keqiang and the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee had given a green light the Friday before to
From what we understand, the US trade negotiating team contacted their counterparts in China last week to discuss a potential next round of negotiations – with the hope it may
China’s Premier Li Keqiang presided over a meeting last Friday to formulate China’s response to President Trump’s announcement earlier in the week of a restriction on mobile technology sales to
The Chinese Yuan has dropped from 6.4000 to almost 6.9000 against the dollar and is retesting the weakest levels of the year in light of the stumbles in trade negotiations with the US, the release
At the conclusion of the two-day meeting last week between China’s Vice Premier Liu He, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Lighthizer conveyed to Liu the
On Wednesday, China’s President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee that was also attended by all three Vice Premiers
Since President Trump’s tape bomb on Sunday threatening to hike tariffs on imports from China if trade talks between the two countries did not conclude this week to the satisfaction
China’s State Council reviewed and approved commodity import and industrial output plans submitted by the relevant planning departments for Q2 of 2019. Those plans are based on China hitting a 6.4%
President Donald Trump’s tweets over the weekend threatening to hike tariffs on China if there is no deal by this Friday sent global markets in a tailspin, with all eyes
China’s President Xi Jinping laid out five reform measures at the opening ceremony of the second BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) Summit last Friday, April 26, that were intended to highlight a
China’s National Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to release major economic data for Q1, including March, followed by a press conference this Wednesday, April 17. In advance of the NBS
Chinese officials are optimistic after the latest round of trade negotiations between Vice Premier Liu He and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer that concluded in Washington last week. *** The
Markets have largely shrugged off overnight reports that a potential summit between US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping – already pushed back from the end-of-March — may not
After the failure of the second summit between North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, Kim called China’s President Xi Jinping on the scenic train
The second session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) will kick off tomorrow on the heels of the March 3rd opening of the second session of the 13th National Committee of the
