China and United States start gin commercial conversations

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Beijing and Washington began on Saturday commercial negotiations in Geneva in Geneva in Geneva, as the Chinese official media reiterated that the United States raised their rates to the country’s exports to show their “sincerity”.

The meeting between the Chinese negotiators led by Vice-Premier He Lifeng and an American team led by the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, comes one day after Donald Trump signposted Its opening to cut rates in China to detain its trade war.

But, although Beijing is looking forward to continuing talks to prevent harsh united states, it is expected that he will be increasingly concerned with Washington’s efforts to forge separate commercial agreements with other countries, such as the United Kingdom, which potentially harm Chinese interests.

“The high -level economic and commercial talks between China and the United States began in Geneva,” the State Newspaper Agency Xinhua said in a brief statement on the meeting, which is expected to last two days. Did not provide more details about his team. Bessent is accompanied by the commercial representative Jamieson Greer in the conversations.

In a publication on its real social network on Friday, Trump suggested that the United States could reduce its rates to 80 percent of the 145 percent Chinese goods, while asking Beijing to open its markets for North -Americans. But the President of the United States added that he was in Bessent.

The Chinese Communist Party Nationalist, The Global Times, on Saturday, repeated Beijing’s calls for the United States to lower rates to lay the foundations for conversations.

“The United States should prepare and take actions on issues such as correcting their wrong practices and raising unilateral rates,” said the country’s Ministry of Commerce.

A resolution “depends on whether Washington can demonstrate the sincerity needed in conversations,” said the Global Times.

He repeated a Chinese saying that “to unleash the bell, you need the person who tied the bell”, that is, the person who created a problem is responsible for solving it.

Beijing is also expected to be worried about a Trade US with the United KingdomThe first was run over by Washington after “reciprocal” rates on members last month.

As part of the agreement, the United Kingdom has accepted the strict U.S. security requirements for its steel and pharmaceutical industries, in which diplomats see as a staff that Washington could use Excludes China of the strategic supply chains of other countries.

China’s commercial data for April show that international trade was resistant despite US rates, largely due to higher shipments to third countries, especially some in Southeast Asia that are known as Chinese export behaviors in the United States.

Before agreeing on the commercial talks of the weekend, there were several weeks of debate in Beijing about the best way to manage Trump’s demands, with some officials contrary to conversations before the United States took good faith measures, such as cutting rates, according to two people who reported on discussions.

One of the people said that some officials were also concerned about the signal they would send to other countries if Beijing decided to negotiate, believing that it could decrease their resolution to keep it quickly next to China to defend the WTO LED trade order.

Chinese officials are more concerned that the United States press their allies to form a new commercial order without it.

China this week was intended to take an example outside India to favor the United States in its treatment, imposing antidumping functions up to 166.2 percent on imports of an Indian pesticide, Cypermethrin.

Apart from dealing with the discharge, the action was aimed at warning other countries that did not use China as a negotiation chip in commercial conversations with the United States, said Yuyuan so much, a social media account affiliated with the CCTV State Station.

He said a New Delhi decision to impose a 12 percent temporary rate on a steel imported last month, with China the “main objective”, on the same day as JD Vance, Vice President of the United States, visited India.

“Many analysts have stated that the India movement is likely to fit the United States repression in the China’s manufacturing industry,” said Yuyuan so much.