Greer Stresses China Trade Over Investment Before Trump-Xi Meet

A top US trade official promoted the creation of a US-China board of trade, while downplaying the possibility of a similar group focused on bilateral investment, a sign of what could be at the center of talks when Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump meet next month.

“We’re looking at that kind of mechanism where we can work with the Chinese to figure what are the non-sensitive goods we should be trading with each other, get a handle on that, figure out what those flows should look like,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Tuesday during an ...