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
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
