China will send a senior negotiator to the United States in late August to resume trade talks, its commerce ministry said on Thursday, the first public meeting on the dispute in weeks as the trade conflict intensifies. Beijing and Washington have slapped tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth …
Read More »Erdogan, Macron vow to foster trade ties
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron agreed in a phone call on Thursday to foster trade ties, a Turkish presidential source said, after the lira’s dramatic fall in the wake of escalating tensions with the US. “Both leaders emphasised the importance of fostering economic and …
Read More »Trump-Putin summit kicks off an hour late with trade, nuclear arms and China on agenda
President Donald Trump told his Russian counterpart that he would discuss “everything from trade to military to missiles to nuclear to China” during their one-on-one meeting at a high-stakes summit in Helsinki Monday. Not mentioned in his opening remarks during a handshake photo opportunity: Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, …
Read More »US says something ‘terribly wrong’ at WTO, attacks China
The new US ambassador to the World Trade Organisation told the WTO’s membership on Tuesday that something had gone “terribly wrong” with judges at the world body and that China’s arguments showed Beijing was living in a fantasy. Addressing the WTO’s General Council for the first time, Dennis Shea said …
Read More »Kremlin says Putin, Erdogan discuss Syria in phone call
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed an upcoming meeting of the Astana process on the Syrian conflict in the Kazakh capital in late October, the Kremlin said on Saturday. During their phone conversation, Putin and Erdogan talked about joint efforts within the Astana process, including the …
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