VOA Mandarin Service reporter Lin Feng contributed to this report STATE DEPARTMENT mdash The United States and China are striking a positive tone ahead
VOA Mandarin Service reporter Lin Feng contributed to this report.
STATE DEPARTMENT The United States and China are striking a positive tone ahead of next week’s talks in Beijing, aimed at ending a trade war, as both countries work toward a trade deal.
‘We’re doing well on trade, we’re doing well with China,’ U. S. President Donald Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for an event in Florida on Wednesday.
Washington and Beijing have held several rounds of talks this year to resolve a trade war that began last year when Trump imposed punitive tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports He hoped to compel Beijing to change its trading practices. China retaliated with its own tariff increases on $110 billion of U. S. exports.
Next week, two senior American officials travel to Beijing to resume trade negotiations. U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U. S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will meet with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on April 30. The two sides will discuss intellectual property, forced technology transfer, non-tariff barriers, agriculture, and other issues.
Vice Premier Liu will then lead a Chinese delegation to Washington for additional talks the following week, on May 8, according to a White House statement.
