Key details on the agenda and deliverables for President Donald Trump’s trip to China early next month remain unclear as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer prepare to meet with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng in Paris over Sunday and Monday.
Welcome to 2021! Last year was certainly an incredibly busy one in US-China affairs and it’s a relatively safe bet that that won’t be changing in the coming year. So to start the year off, we’re checking in with our director in Beijing, Lipei Zhang. This week, we chat about the recently finalized EU-China investment […]
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s globe-spanning plan for infrastructure construction and development. The Chinese government describes it as a effort “to enhance regional connectivity and embrace a brighter future together.” More skeptical voices would describe it as a textbook exercise in debt trap diplomacy, straddling developing countries with unsustainable debt to create […]
