US and trade sensitive global markets continued to rally overnight and today on reports that US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has reached out to his negotiating counterpart, Vice Premier Liu
US equity markets have popped on newswire reports that US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has reached out to Beijing to suggest a new round of trade discussions with Beijing —
On Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted from aboard Air Force One a threat of further tariffs on another $267 billion of imports from China, behind the $200 billion list that was
Global markets were cheered last week by measures taken by the People’s Bank of China to reverse a precipitous two-month slide in the Yuan to a hair shy of the
Approximately 280 kilometers east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the annual summer conclave of China’s top leadership at Beidaihe ended this Tuesday, August 14. In a testament to the
With the yuan having plunged against the dollar by almost 7% since June to 6.85 from around 6.40, analysts have embarked on a new round of speculation over when and whether the
This weekend’s headlines were dominated by the tough rhetoric and aggressive Chinese official media editorials that included vows to dig in for a protracted trade war with the US, even
From what we understand, China’s Vice Minister Liu He turned down a request a few days ago from the US Ambassador to China, former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, to meet
US President Donald Trump rattled markets with the announcement on Tuesday that he had asked Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to draw up a list of an additional $200 billion of
According to sources in Beijing, with a mere few days to go, US officials have yet to contact their Chinese counterparts at any senior level ahead of the July 6 deadline
President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of China’s highest decision-making body, the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Zhongnanhai, Beijing on June 21. It was the
Beijing is preparing a very tough response to the latest threat on the trade front from President Donald Trump yesterday, when he ordered United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to
In an in-depth one-on-one meeting last month with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Liu He, China’s Vice Premier in charge of trade negotiations with the US, laid out a very clear retaliatory path should
American and Chinese officials have gone out of their way since the high-profile visit by Vice Premier Liu He to Washington last week to emphasize that “trade wars are over”
In the wake of President Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and impose harsh new sanctions on Iran, Beijing has undertaken a number of diplomatic
In the wake of the high-level US trade delegation’s visit last week to Beijing the press reported that China’s powerful Vice Premier Liu He would reciprocate with a visit to
The objective of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s trip today to Pyongyang was to lay the groundwork for a successful historic summit between the US and North Korean leaders
The Trump Administration went to great lengths to downplay expectations for this week’s meeting between top-level US and Chinese officials to address growing trade frictions between the two countries. With
The world’s eyes have been on the summit meeting today between North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In, where the two leaders hailed a new
Markets have been cheered by a somewhat more conciliatory tone over the last week or so from China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, reflecting a desire by
