{"id":54108,"date":"2025-05-07T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/china-and-u-s-to-hold-high-level-trade-talks-amid-ongoing-tariff-tensions\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:19:37","slug":"china-and-u-s-to-hold-high-level-trade-talks-amid-ongoing-tariff-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/china-and-u-s-to-hold-high-level-trade-talks-amid-ongoing-tariff-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"China and U.S. to hold high level trade talks amid ongoing tariff tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng will meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during his visit to Switzerland from May 9 to 12, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce confirmed on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p>The talks come after the new U.S. administration imposed a series of unilateral tariff measures, which China said have disrupted bilateral relations and global trade order. <\/p>\n<p>In response, China took firm [countermeasures,->https:\/\/en.igihe.com\/business\/article\/trade-war-heats-up-as-china-strikes-back-with-125-tariffs-on-u-s-goods] defending what it calls its legitimate rights and interests.<\/p>\n<p>According to a ministry spokesperson, the U.S. recently expressed a willingness to engage in dialogue, prompting China to agree to talks after careful consideration of global expectations, national interest, and feedback from U.S. industry stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>China emphasized that any negotiation must be based on mutual respect, equality, and reciprocal benefit, warning against the use of dialogue as a tool for coercion or blackmail.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson added that China would not compromise on its core principles and reiterated its commitment to fair international trade, the World Trade Organization, and multilateralism.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-86777\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_9461-8afdf.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese assemble an electric scooter at the headquarters of Yadea in Chongqing Municipal Province in China. Photo by Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and the United States are preparing for high-level economic and trade talks in Switzerland, following a recent escalation in retaliatory tariffs that have reignited trade tensions between the two global powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000086778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000086778,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_9461-8afdf.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_9461-8afdf.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_9461-8afdf.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_9461-8afdf.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_9461-8afdf.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_9461-8afdf.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000086778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54108"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54108"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}