Trump Predicts Positive Outcome as US and China Resume Trade Talks in London

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Trump Predicts Positive Outcome as US and China Resume Trade Talks in London

 

Senior officials from the White House are set to meet with a Chinese delegation in London on Monday for a new round of trade negotiations, according to an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump. The upcoming meeting follows what Trump described as a “very good” hour-and-a-half phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, signaling a potential thaw in the prolonged trade tensions between the two global superpowers.

 

Speaking from Air Force One on Friday, Trump told reporters that the conversation with Xi had been “very positive.” He noted the complexity of the ongoing trade dispute but expressed optimism about its potential benefits for the United States. “It was a good talk,” Trump said. “It’s a complicated deal, but one that will bring us a lot of money.”

 

The renewed momentum in the talks appears to have been spurred by the call between the two leaders. Trump, using his Truth Social platform to relay further details, said he expects the London discussions to be productive. “The meeting should go very well,” he wrote.

 

The United States will be represented in London by three high-level officials: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. These names signal a serious effort by the U.S. to engage with China on economic issues that have created turbulence in global markets and strained diplomatic relations.

 

At this time, it remains unclear who will represent the Chinese side during the talks. The absence of confirmed names from Beijing leaves some uncertainty about the level of engagement China will bring to the table.

 

Still, the setting of the meeting in a neutral location like London and the tone of recent communications between Trump and Xi suggest both nations may be looking for off-ramps to ease the pressure of their long-running trade war. While neither side has signaled any major policy shifts, the dialogue marks a significant step in the ongoing effort to resolve disagreements on tariffs, intellectual property, and market access.

 

Whether the London talks lead to substantive breakthroughs remains to be seen, but the resumed dialogue and Trump's uncharacteristically hopeful tone indicate that both Washington and Beijing may be positioning themselves for a more cooperative phase in their economic relationship.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Independent  2025-06-09

 

 

[BKKKevin]

The man’s playing Three Dementia Chess… 

[Tug]

Results trump not your words only fools put any stock in what you say.

[spidermike007]

Trump is a terrible negotiator and picked the wrong fight. China is going to stick it to him in a big way. And though I have long despised the CCP, I am rooting for them now, as is much of the world. 

 

Mr. Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the pillars of American power and innovation. His tariffs are endangering U.S. companies’ access to global markets and supply chains. He is slashing public research funding and gutting our universities, pushing talented researchers to consider leaving for other countries. He wants to roll back programs for technologies like clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing and is wiping out American soft power in large swaths of the globe.

 

China’s trajectory couldn’t be more different.

 

It already leads global production in multiple industries — steel, aluminum, shipbuilding, batteries, solar power, electric vehicles, wind turbines, drones, 5G equipment, consumer electronics, active pharmaceutical ingredients and bullet trains. It is projected to account for 45 percent — nearly half — of global manufacturing by 2030. Beijing is also laser-focused on winning the future: In March it announced a $138 billion national venture capital fund that will make long-term investments in cutting-edge technologies such as quantum computing and robotics, and increased its budget for public research and development.

 

The Chinese electric carmaker BYD, which Mr. Trump’s political ally Elon Musk once laughed off as a joke, overtook Tesla last year in global sales, is building new factories around the world and in March reached a market value greater than that of Ford, GM and Volkswagen combined. China is charging ahead in drug discoveries, especially cancer treatments, and installed more industrial robots in 2023 than the rest of the world combined. In semiconductors, the vital commodity of this century and a longtime weak point for China, it is building a self-reliant supply chain led by recent breakthroughs by Huawei. Critically, Chinese strength across these and other overlapping technologies is creating a virtuous cycle in which advances in multiple interlocking sectors reinforce and elevate one another.

 

Yet Mr. Trump remains fixated on tariffs. He doesn’t even seem to grasp the scale of the threat posed by China. Before the two countries’ announcement last Monday that they had agreed to slash trade tariffs, Mr. Trump dismissed concerns that his previous sky-high tariffs on Chinese goods would leave shelves empty in American stores. He said Americans could just get by with buying fewer dolls for their children — a characterization of China as a factory for toys and other cheap junk that is wildly out of date.

 

The United States needs to realize that neither tariffs nor other trade pressure will get China to abandon the state-driven economic playbook that has worked so well for it and suddenly adopt industrial and trade policies that Americans consider fair. If anything, Beijing is doubling down on its state-led approach, bringing a Manhattan Project-style focus to achieving dominance in high-tech industries.

 

Mr. Trump’s blinkered obsession with short-term Band-Aids like tariffs, while actively undermining what makes America strong, will only hasten the onset of a Chinese-dominated world.

[soalbundy]

9 hours ago, BKKKevin said:

The man’s playing Three Dementia Chess… 

It's going to be a big beautiful meeting the like of which you have never seen before.