U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo visited Beijing on Tuesday and met with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng.
The two spoke for nearly four and a half hours, seemingly without any major breakthroughs.
Chinese state-run Xinhua news service wrote an uninspired summary of the meeting that quoted He bloodlessly repeating China’s trade concerns and quoted nothing from Raimondo at all:
The two sides had candid, pragmatic and constructive discussions over implementing the important consensus reached at the Bali meeting between the two countries’ heads of state, as well as economic and trade issues of common concern.
The Chinese side expressed its concerns over measures taken by the United States, such as Section 301 tariffs, export controls against China and two-way investment restrictions.
The two sides agreed to…
