In Beijing, US seeks details on Chinese goods purchases and trade promises
Washington has a long list of demands, including changes to China’s policies on intellectual property protection and technology transfers
Beijing/Washington — US officials used three days of trade talks in Beijing to demand more details on China’s pledge to make big purchases of American goods, as well as to push for ways to hold China to any commitments on changes to industrial policies. The meetings in China were the first face-to-face negotiations since US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Buenos Aires in December and agreed to a 90-day truce in a trade war that has disrupted the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars of goods. Washington has presented Beijing with a long list of demands that would rewrite the terms of trade between the world’s two largest economies. They include changes to China’s policies on intellectual property (IP) protection, technology transfers, industrial subsidies and other non-tariff barriers to trade. Some 40 days into the 90-day truce, there were few concrete details on progress made so far. The meetings in Beijing were not at a ministerial level, so were ...
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