China confirms top economic official to meet US counterpart in ParisBEIJING, March 13, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - China's top economic official will leave on Saturday for talks with his US counterpart in France, less than three weeks before President Donald Trump's expected summit with President Xi Jinping. The Paris gathering is seen as setting the stage for Trump's expected visit to China later this month. - New probes -China and the United States have navigated a rocky economic relationship since Trump began a second term in January 2025. There are hopes that tensions could cool, although newly unveiled probes by Washington into international trade practices have again threatened more instability. China's commerce ministry criticised the latest US probes as "a typical act of unilateralism that severely undermines the international economic and trade order".

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha March 13, 2026 09:22 UTC