China vice premier to meet US delegation for trade talks: Beijing

AFP | Beijing

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Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng will meet a US delegation for talks next week in Britain, Beijing announced Saturday amid a fragile truce in the trade dispute between the two powers.

He will visit the United Kingdom from June 8 to 13 at the invitation of the British government, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

It said He and American representatives will co-chair the first meeting of the China-US economic and trade consultation mechanism.

US President Donald Trump had already announced on Friday that a new round of trade talks with China would kick off in London beginning Monday, after he spoke by phone with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a bid to end a bitter battle over tariffs.

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer would meet the Chinese team.

A first meeting, held in mid-May in Geneva, brought a pause to the US-China trade dispute.