•US President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping China and the United States agreed today to conduct another round of trade negotiations in the coming week, as the world’s two biggest economies seek to avoid another damaging tit-for-tat tariff battle. Last week, Beijing announced sweeping controls on the critical rare earths industry,...
•Xi Jinping and Donald Trump China and the United States resumed trade talks today in Madrid, seeking to narrow differences on trade and technology that have strained relations between the world’s two largest economies. Talks restarted at Spain’s foreign ministry, a day after delegations led by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese V...
Oil prices fell by a few cents today as the market anticipates US-China trade talks in London later in the day. Brent crude futures slipped 11 cents to $64.61 a barrel by 7:28 WAT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 4 cents to $64.54, reports AFP. The minor slip was after Brent gained 4%, and […]
•Boeing 777X airplane China has lifted a ban on domestic airlines accepting new Boeing aircraft, a report said today, after Beijing and Washington agreed to temporarily lower tariffs in a major de-escalation of their trade war. Last month the American aircraft maker confirmed that Chinese airlines had stopped accepting delivery of new planes d...
•China’s President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump China said today that it was willing to engage in trade talks with Washington, a day after US President Donald Trump signalled that hefty tariffs he imposed on the country would come down after the sides reach a deal. Since Trump began a second term in […]

