The China-US economic and trade negotiations have made progress.
From September 14 to 15, the fourth round of China-US economic and trade negotiations was held in Madrid, Spain. According to foreign media reports, US Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemi mentioned before the second day of negotiations that China and the US are "very close" to reaching an agreement on the TikTok issue, and both sides have made "very good progress" on technical details of the trade agreement; he also mentioned that China has put forward a "very radical request," which the US is currently studying.
It is reported that this round of economic and trade negotiations mainly focused on the issue of the US forcing ByteDance to sell its TikTok business in the US. Previously, Trump had extended the deadline for selling this business three times to September 17, and experts predict that after this round of negotiations, the deadline may be extended again.
Regarding the so-called "progress" mentioned by Adeyemi, it is necessary to see whether the US truly has the intention —— previously, he and Trump had repeatedly released similar signals, but no substantive actions have been seen. If the US continues to adopt a unilateral bullying logic, such as using "China's purchase of Russian oil" as an excuse to force the EU and NATO to impose tariffs as high as 100% on China, this kind of economic coercion obviously cannot promote the resolution of the problem, and China will not compromise.
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