The delegations from China and the USA This Sunday they began their second day of trade negotiations in Kuala Lumpurwhere the president of the United States, Donald Trump, arrived this Sunday on his first tour of Asia of his second term, with a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as the main objective.
“The delegations of China and the United States met again this Sunday for the second day of talks on economic and trade issues,” noted the official Xinhua agency in a brief dispatch at the beginning of the meeting, which started around 09:00 local time (01:00 GMT) at Merdeka Tower 188 in the Malaysian capital.
During the first day, held on Saturday, the chinese delegationheaded by Vice Prime Minister He Lifeng, held a meeting of more than five hours with the American side in this same skyscraper, without specific details have been released so far about the progress of the dialogue between both powers.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent left for Malaysia last Wednesday to meet with his Chinese counterparts, amid an escalation in trade tensions after new restrictions from Beijing on exports of rare earths, whose production and export it practically monopolizes.
In response, the US president threatened to raise to 100% the liens on Chinese products from November 1, which could increase effective rates to 157%.
Fentanyl is on the agenda
- During a brief stop of the Air Force One in Qatar to refuel before taking off towards Kuala LumpurOn Saturday, Trump expressed his hope of reaching a “complete agreement” with Xi during the meeting that, according to the White House, they plan to hold on October 30 in South Korea.
“I want our farmers to be well protected. And he (Xi) also wants things. We are going to talk, of course, about fentanyl. Fentanyl is killing a lot of people. It comes from China. “I think we have a very good chance of reaching a truly comprehensive agreement,” said the Republican.
The trade talks in the Malaysian capital will coincide this Sunday with the start of the meeting of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which will take place until Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur and that it will be the first stop on Trump’s Asian tour that will also take him to Japan and South Korea. EFE
