Sentences with phrase «chinese trade officials»

(if Chinese trade officials haven't gotten to those politicians already!)

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Chinese and American officials will be trying to defuse tensions pushing the world's two largest economies toward trade war in meetings in Beijing beginning Thursday.

Rightly or wrongly, many Chinese officials feel China has done its share and more in restricting trade with North Korea — only for Trump to push ahead with tough trade sanctions against China anyway.

The mission including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is due to hold talks later Thursday and Friday with Chinese officials led by Liu He, President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser.

BEIJING — A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing on Thursday for talks with Chinese officials on defusing tensions that are propelling the world's two largest economies toward a trade war.

As the Trump administration considers what action to take on trade tariffs on steel and aluminum, European Union and Chinese officials are considering taking aim at politically strategic products made in the U.S., such as bourbon and motorcycles.

Amidst a brewing trade war, executives of U.S. tech giants will head to China this weekend for the China Development Forum, an annual gathering to bridge ties between Western corporates and Chinese officials.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other top American officials are in Beijing this morning for trade talks, appealing to Chinese leaders to help preserve U-S support for free trade.

«China stands firm and wins first battle of Sino - US trade war,» China's official People's Daily newspaper said in the headline of a Chinese - language article Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- President Donald Trump will announce tariffs on Chinese imports on Thursday, a White House official said, in a move aimed at curbing theft of U.S. technology and likely to trigger retaliation from Beijing and stoke fears of a global trade war.

Rhetoric from Trump and Chinese officials fed worries about a possible trade war and U.S. jobs data came in weaker than expected.

Gold prices rose on Friday, as Wall Street stocks tumbled and the dollar fell as rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese officials fed worries about a possible trade war, and after U.S. jobs data came in weaker than expected.

There might be some light at the end of the tunnel: Chinese officials have urged trade talks in recent weeks in order to avoid an all - out trade war.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

Instead, he says he is negotiating better trade terms with China, and pushing Chinese officials to protect foreign companies» intellectual property rights.

HONG KONG (Nikkei Markets)-- Hong Kong shares suffered their steepest single - day percentage retreat in two weeks on Thursday amid uncertainty over trade negotiations between Chinese and U.S. officials.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday praised his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping as officials from the world's two largest economies began trade talks in Beijing, while state media said China would stand up to U.S. bullying.

The focus was turning to talks beginning Thursday between U.S. and Chinese officials in Beijing aimed at resolving festering trade...

«Chinese officials will likely pause to digest this move, and the series of other trade and investment moves coming at them in waves, before deciding how best to respond.

Chinese officials have said that they will proceed with talks about its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) with Canada and the European Union.

As recently as March 10, 2018, American, EU, and Japanese officials agreed to cooperate on addressing unfair Chinese trade practices within the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework.27 The keys to pushing back against China's unfair practices are: maintaining a strong relationship with allies in Europe and Asia; being a reliable partner; and upholding multilateral institutions like thetrade practices within the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework.27 The keys to pushing back against China's unfair practices are: maintaining a strong relationship with allies in Europe and Asia; being a reliable partner; and upholding multilateral institutions like theTrade Organization (WTO) framework.27 The keys to pushing back against China's unfair practices are: maintaining a strong relationship with allies in Europe and Asia; being a reliable partner; and upholding multilateral institutions like the WTO.

Negotiations with Chinese officials tend to be well choreographed, he said, so it is likely that the dimensions of a trade agreement are starting to take shape.

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US and Chinese officials will hold highly anticipated trade talks in China on Thursday and Friday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox Business Network, saying he was «cautiously optimistic» about the meeting.

In November 2017, three Chinese state companies signed an agreement to invest in a $ 43 billion LNG project in Alaska.120 Xi's engagement with Alaskan state officials may have been a way to mediate potential fallout from rising tensions over trade between China and U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, yet it suggests that Beijing conducts careful diplomacy on Arctic issues on both the regional and national levels.

Of course, it's important to remember that Chinese officials recently banned token offerings and the nation's cryptocurrency exchanges ceased trading just a few days ago.

As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.

BEIJING The Chinese industry body which recommended targeting scrap aluminium in retaliatory trade action against the United States is already exploring what other measures could be taken, an official said on Monday.

But The NYT's Keith Bradsher reports a lack of experience in international trade law among Chinese officials «could make it even harder for the two sides to find common ground before the talks end on Friday.»

Chinese officials said they would not agree to a $ 100 billion reduction in the trade deficit that the Trump administration has demanded.

In a commentary widely cited in Chinese media on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said if things went poorly and a trade war did break out, China would never yield and would hit back strongly.

But without agreement or a clear list of goals from the American side, the Chinese may try to mollify officials by meeting only the most modest of their trade demands.

BEIJING (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday praised his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping as officials from the world's two largest economies began trade talks in Beijing, while state media said China would stand up to U.S. bullying.

This prompted Chinese officials to counter U.S. attempts to blame it for running a trade surplus by retorting that U.S. financial aggression «risked bringing mutual destruction upon the great economic powers.»

Bitcoin price took a huge fall on Friday after Caixin, a Chinese financial magazine, reported that Chinese Central Bank officials are working on rules to ban the trading of Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies on Chinese exchanges.

Political news may also garner attention today, as U.S. trade delegation Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are set to meet with Chinese officials in Beijing today and tomotrade delegation Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are set to meet with Chinese officials in Beijing today and tomoTrade Representative Robert Lighthizer are set to meet with Chinese officials in Beijing today and tomorrow.

Several top administration officials, led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, are meeting with Chinese leaders to negotiate trade.

BEIJING / WASHINGTON — Top Chinese and American officials have begun the long process of sorting out trade frictions between the two economic superpowers, with the stakes raised higher by a new U.S. threat to impose restrictions on tech companies ZTE and Huawei Technologies.

A high - powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing on Thursday for talks with Chinese officials on defusing tensions that are propelling the world's two largest economies toward a trade war.

As U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other officials head to Beijing this week for high - stakes trade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other natTrade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other officials head to Beijing this week for high - stakes trade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other nattrade talks with Chinese counterparts, they seek to correct an economic relationship with China that has become increasingly unbalanced — and, over the long term, dangerous — for the United States and other nations.

China would welcome a successful outcome from trade talks with the U.S., but is fully prepared for all outcomes and will not negotiate on core interests, a Chinese government official said on Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and his heavyweight team of U.S. officials handed China a lengthy list of demands on trade, ranging from immediately cutting a trade imbalance by $ 100 billion a year to halting all Chinese government support for advanced technologies.

While last night's quid - pro-quo from Chinese officials will likely be remembered as the start of escalating trade wars, Wikileaks has uncovered a declassified cable from John Huntsman indicating China's clear understanding of the growing tension and comprehension of the ability of the US to entirely destroy it economically with one swipe of the Presidential pen via a massive devaluation of the USD or repegging to gold.

Even though investors seemed to lose momentum toward the end of the session on Monday, positive comments from Chinese officials succeeded in easing fears about a potential trade war, and that helped refocus most market participants on the impending start to earnings season.

«There is ongoing communications with the Chinese on trade,» said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss the Trump administration's trade strategy.

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and other senior economic officials will meet with Chinese officials on Thursday and Friday to discuss the two countries» trade disagreemTrade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and other senior economic officials will meet with Chinese officials on Thursday and Friday to discuss the two countries» trade disagreemtrade disagreements.

While the official goal of the new futures contract is to establish a regional benchmark for more useful pricing of the crude grades prevalent on the Chinese market, analysts see the yuan oil futures as a step toward China seeking wider acceptance of its currency in global trade, including the oil trade, and establishing a petro - yuan that could challenge, in the future, the dominance of the petrodollar.

Several Chinese officials have already visited the U.S. this year to discuss ongoing trade tensions between China and the United States.

Chinese officials have not publicly confirmed that an American trade delegation will be traveling to China next week, but the commerce ministry released a statement saying that they have «received information that the U.S. side hopes to come to Beijing to discuss economic and trade issues.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.