In reading the weekend press traders might be forgiven for thinking the tough cross-talk between US Vice President Mike Pence and China’s President Xi Jinping at an APEC summit was
If there is one thing President Donald Trump does not take kindly to, it is having his negotiating stance on China undermined by “globalists” seemingly eager to grab any deal
China’s President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee last week to analyze the state of the economy and to plan for 2019. ***
China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald J. Trump have finally agreed, formally, to meet on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires on November 20. But
With US stock markets suddenly swooning – uncomfortably close to the midterm elections – the few remaining doves in Washington leaked out yesterday preparations for a potential summit between Presidents
By this week, nine economic departments will have formally submitted their respective forecasts for the major economic data to China’s Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission and State Council, all of which
China’s President Xi Jinping is reported to have been livid at the imposition of US sanctions on China’s Equipment Development Department and its director, Li Shangfu, for purchasing Russian Su-35
Even while expecting that President Donald Trump would eventually proceed with the imposition as threatened of tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese exports to the United States, China’s most senior
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
