Vue lecture

U.S. and China Agree to Resume Trade Truce After Tensions Escalated

Two days of talks resulted in a “framework” meant to solidify terms of a deal that the superpowers reached in Geneva last month.

© Toby Melville/Reuters

News crews waiting on Tuesday outside Lancaster House in London, where U.S.-Chinese trade talks were taking place.

Trump Says Trade Deal With China ‘Is Done,’ but Offers Few Details

Two days of talks resulted in a “framework” meant to solidify terms of a deal that the superpowers reached in Geneva last month.

© Toby Melville/Reuters

News crews waiting on Tuesday outside Lancaster House in London, where U.S.-Chinese trade talks were taking place.

Trump Administration Holds Trade Talks With China as Fight Over Rare Earths Escalates

Officials from the world’s largest economies will try to strike a deal Tuesday to relax painful export restrictions that they have imposed on each other.

© Toby Melville/Reuters

On the Chinese side, the negotiations are led by He Lifeng, left, the vice premier in charge of economic policy.

U.S. and China to Hold Economic Talks in London

Top American economic officials will meet with their Chinese counterparts next Monday in hopes of breaking a trade stalemate, President Trump said.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

President Trump earlier this year with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, center, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Xi to Trump: Rein in the Hawks Trying to Derail the Tariff Truce

China sought to depict a call between Xi Jinping and President Trump as an appeal from one strongman leader to another to run a tight ship and stay on course.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

A meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, in Japan in 2019, during President Trump’s first term. The leaders spoke by phone on Thursday after weeks of worsening tensions between Washington and Beijing.

China Rejects Trump’s Accusation That It Violated Trade Truce

In response to President Trump’s claim, China said the United States was the one introducing a series of “discriminatory restrictive measures.”

© Martial Trezzini/Keystone, via Reuters

Officials from the United States and China reached a trade truce last month following a meeting in Geneva.
❌