Beijing is opening the economy “at its own pace, in its own direction, which is already fixed,” the Commerce Ministry said after President Xi Jinping offered to increase foreign access to China’s markets.
BEIJING—A Chinese government spokesman denied that recently announced policy changes constitute concessions to the Trump administration in the countries’ trade fight.
A Commerce Ministry spokesman said Thursday that the new measures announced by President Xi Jinping “have nothing to do with the trade disputes with the U. S.” The spokesman, Gao Feng, told reporters that the Chinese government is opening the economy “at its own pace, in its own direction, which is already fixed.”…
