https://archive.is/FKuhi (reuters)
https://archive.is/MIdNc (afp)
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng met for about eight hours with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer in Geneva in their first face-to-face meeting since the world’s two largest economies heaped tariffs well above 100% on each other’s goods.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that an 80% tariff on Chinese goods “seems right”, suggesting for the first time a specific alternative to the 145% levies he has imposed on Chinese imports.
Neither side made any statements about the substance of the discussions nor signaled any progress towards reducing crushing tariffs as meetings at the residence of Switzerland’s ambassador to the U.N. concluded at about 8 p.m. local time. (1800 GMT)
The discussions are expected to restart on Sunday in the Swiss city, according to an individual familiar with the talks, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
The 80% number is just something that Trump posted on his social media early on Friday morning, before any meeting ever happened.
UPDATE Trump posted on truthsocial, 1 hour ago. He describes the meeting with the phrases “total reset” and “great progress”. I won’t believe this until I hear the perspective from China’s government.
Sorry, but the way you are posting your claims here is just big wall of text with very bold claims with no sources. Unless your tactic is to overwhelm everyone with text just to make a point, you should write a proper article, properly handling your sources. You could just be using Gen AI content, for all I care.
Yes that’s what I was doing, by writing fully sourced articles until my laptop blew up a couple months back. Now I had to rewrite everything from scratch.
Believe it or not I typed all of those out from memory lol.
I would be surprised if AI can write all this stuff. Some of the information you’d be hard pressed to find on the English speaking internet, although I’m sure a quick google could reveal all the facts I’ve cited, but not the way how all these information are put together with a coherent, material analysis.