The two sides will issue a joint statement agreed during the talks on Monday, the vice-premier said. The US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, who spoke alongside Bessent, suggested more strongly that a deal had been reached. “We want to see, for the good of both China and the U.S., an opening up of China to American business. “They all look a little bit like the UK deal but each one is bespoke,” he said. But Hufbauer cautioned he was “very sceptical that there will be any return to something like normal US-China trade relations”.
