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US-China Trade War: Framework Agreement Concluded

US-China Trade War: Framework Agreement Concluded

C2🇯🇵 日本語🇺🇸 English

June 12th, 2025

US-China Trade War: Framework Agreement Concluded

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Summary🇺🇸 English

After
〜の後に
a
1つの
protracted
長引いた
period
期間
of
fractious
気難しい、扱いにくい...
disagreements
意見の相違、不一致
that
それ
had
持っていた、〜があっ...
jeopardised
危険にさらされた
forward
今後
momentum,
勢い、機運
the
その
United
連合した
States
州、国家、特に(米国...
and
そして
China
中国
jointly
共同で
declared
宣言した
that
それ
their
彼らの
principal
主要な
negotiators
交渉担当者
had
持っていた、〜があっ...

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🇯🇵 日本語

Following a period of contentious disputes that had threatened to derail progress, the United States and China jointly announced that their senior negotiators had achieved a consensus on a framework designed to re-establish momentum in the bilateral trade negotiations.

The announcement transpired at the denouement of a two-day colloquy in London, England, concluding late Tuesday night.

The crux of the summit purportedly revolved around identifying resolutions to the mineral and technology export imbroglio, a dispute with the potential to unravel the tenuous trade truce brokered in Geneva last month, though whether substantive headway was made regarding the more deep-seated divergence in Sino-American trade imbalances remains nebulous.

Following the bilateral discussions, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Ratnick informed the press that the expungement of deleterious sentiments was a prerequisite for substantive progress.

当該発表を契機として、水曜日のアジア株式市場は軒並み上昇局面を呈するに至りました。

Following last week's teleconference between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, this dialogue was undertaken as a calibrated effort to de-escalate tensions and stabilise the prevailing geopolitical climate.

Li Chenggang, China's Vice Minister of Commerce and concurrently its International Trade Representative, stated, according to official Xinhua News Agency reports, that both nations have achieved a principled accord regarding the architecture for implementing the consensus reached during teleconferences and subsequent deliberations in Geneva.

Further modalities, encompassing prospective deliberations, remain, as of this juncture, shrouded in a veil of circumspection.

Li, alongside Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, participated as part of a delegation helmed by Vice Premier He Lifeng. They convened with Commerce Secretary Ratnik, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, and Trade Representative Jamison Greer at Lancaster House, a bicentennial manor proximate to Buckingham Palace.

Wendy Cutler, formerly a United States Trade Representative official, posited that the present imbroglio has already squandered thirty days of the ninety-day window allotted for bilateral dispute resolution efforts.

Amidst an escalating trade war, the two nations reached an accord in Geneva, suspending for 90 days the majority of tariffs exceeding 100% levied on each other, a move precipitated by and intended to mitigate burgeoning recessionary anxieties; this development occurred against the backdrop of the World Bank's downward revision of US and global economic growth forecasts for the current year, announced on Tuesday, explicitly citing the intensification of trade barriers as the causative factor.

Ambassador Cutler, currently Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute, lamented the squandering of crucial time in Geneva to resurrect the accord between the United States and China, emphasizing that the onus is now on both nations to leverage the remaining sixty-day window to decisively address such critical concerns as inequitable trade practices, excess capacity, transshipment, and, notably, the illicit fentanyl trade.

Since the Geneva talks, a fractious dispute between the United States and China has persisted, encompassing advanced semiconductors that underpin artificial intelligence, visa protocols for Chinese students at US universities, and the strategically vital rare earth mineral supply chains crucial to automotive manufacturers and other industries.

China, the world's foremost rare earth producer, has intimated a potential expediting of export license issuances for these elements, a quid pro quo contingent, according to Beijing, on the United States' revocation of restrictions impeding China's access to technologies crucial for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

While Mr. Latonic intimated that resolving the rare earth elements issue constituted a linchpin of the agreed framework, implying a concomitant willingness on the part of the United States to rescind extant measures, he remained circumspect regarding the precise modalities of such action.

He posited that the relaxation of our export control measures hinged upon their ratification of the license.

Cutler observed that the United States' intransigence on export control negotiations constitutes an unprecedented stance, exacerbating a grievance that has persistently plagued Sino-American relations for nearly two decades.

She asserted that this development effectively established a precedent for the United States to demand the incorporation of export controls into the agenda of future negotiations with China.

In Washington, the Federal Court of Appeals decreed that tariffs imposed by Trump, not only on China but globally, would persist throughout the appeals process concerning judgments against his overarching trade policies, effectively maintaining the fiscal status quo pending further judicial review.

Trump, in a prior statement, articulated a desire to liberalise access to China, the globe's preeminent manufacturing powerhouse.

Speaking from the White House, he posited that a failure to instigate openness within China might well presage a complete and utter stagnation, before affirming the desire to see China open.

June 12th, 2025

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