{"id":71712,"date":"2025-05-10T19:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/chinese-us-officials-meet-geneva-trade-talks-tariffs"},"modified":"2025-05-10T19:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T10:14:05","slug":"chinese-and-us-officials-meet-in-geneva-for-de-escalation-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71712","title":{"rendered":"Chinese and US officials meet in Geneva for \u2018de-escalation\u2019 trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Trade Organization hails \u2018constructive step\u2019 as senior figures come together to discuss tariffs<\/p>\n<p>Senior US and Chinese officials held talks early on Saturday in Geneva in a tentative first step towards defusing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/07\/china-us-trump-tariffs-trade-talks\">trade war that is disrupting the global economy<\/a>, according to China\u2019s state-owned news agency and people close to the talks.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s vice-premier, He Lifeng, and the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, met after weeks of growing tensions as duties on imports between the world\u2019s two largest economies have risen above 100%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/chinese-us-officials-meet-geneva-trade-talks-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Trade Organization hails \u2018constructive step\u2019 as senior figures come together to discuss tariffsSenior US and Chinese officials held talks early on Saturday in Geneva in a tentative first step towards defusing a trade war that is disrupting the gl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,50,415,437,557,3280,3279,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-international-trade","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71712\/revisions\/71713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}