INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
for the first time since the beginning of an escalating trade dispute between his country and the United States, Xi implicitly took aim at
areas where China was willing to give, including pledging to ease restrictions on imported cars by the end of the year as well as repeating
southern island province of Hainan, was the latest effort by China to position itself as an advocate of free trade and reliable growth
That pitch runs counter to long-standing accusations that China violates trade rules and intellectual property rights
came just days after the U.S
and China exchanged tit-for-tat tariff threats that have ignited worries of a global trade war
Trump administration officials have accused China of forcing foreign companies doing business there to give up trade secrets as part of
rivals.
On trade, China has tried to project a balanced tone
It retaliated quickly last week after the U.S
At the same time, Chinese officials have said they want to avoid a trade war and negotiate.
On Tuesday, Xi appeared to have given Trump a
Last November, China said it would ease and eventually remove limits on foreign ownership of banks and other financial firms, but financial
economies, Chinese officials see the increasingly strident tone from Washington as an opportunity
Since Trump was elected in 2016 and pursued an America First policy that has alienated some allies, Xi and other Chinese leaders have tried
global leadership on climate on the eve of the inauguration of Trump, who has publicly questioned the science behind climate change
and Chinese corporate chiefs have sought to strike a delicate balance: playing down worries about the effect on China of a protracted trade
fight, while warning that the global economic system could be disrupted by a trade war and that the U.S
China is just a piece of a complicated regional supply chain across Asia, he said, citing the example of the Apple iPhone
uncertainty with this trade conflict
business executives tried to strike a similar balance in their remarks at Boao
Dong Mingzhu, the chairwoman of Gree Electric Appliances, a leading Chinese manufacturer
On Monday evening Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba, warned that his pledge to create 1 million jobs in the United States could be
