{"id":14910,"date":"2026-05-13T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:16:08","slug":"china-us-trade-talks-kick-off-in-seoul-ahead-of-high-profile-leaders-summit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/14910\/","title":{"rendered":"China-US trade talks kick off in Seoul ahead of high-profile leaders\u2019 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior officials from China and the United States have started <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3353174\/us-china-negotiations-seek-quick-seoul-search-deals-ahead-trumps-visit?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a new round of trade talks<\/a> in Seoul, South Korea, hours ahead of US President Donald Trump\u2019s scheduled arrival in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The delegations \u2013 led by Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent \u2013 arrived at Terminal 1 of Incheon Airport around noon on Wednesday Seoul time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The two officials had both paid courtesy calls to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh round of negotiations between He and Bessent since Trump returned to office and launched a global tariff war last year, with the talks setting the stage for the meeting between <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3353055\/trumps-china-return-whats-changed-his-friendly-2017-visit?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Unlike previous meetings that have usually lasted around two days, this round of talks is expected to only run for a few hours. Bessent will head to China in the afternoon to join Trump.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump is set to visit Beijing from Wednesday to Friday, China\u2019s foreign ministry confirmed on Monday. This will mark the first trip by a US president to China in over eight years, after a state visit during Trump\u2019s first non-consecutive term in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent and He are expected to discuss a number of issues, including Chinese purchases of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/soybeans?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">American soybeans<\/a>, beef and aircraft, as well as China\u2019s export controls on critical minerals, for which a key suspension is set to expire in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior officials from China and the United States have started a new round of trade talks in Seoul,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3628,136,134,74,2600,10948,8670,114,10947,1485,8669,8666,112,444,1334],"class_list":{"0":"post-14910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seoul","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-geneva","14":"tag-he-lifeng","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-kelly-ortberg","17":"tag-micron","18":"tag-paris","19":"tag-scott-bessent","20":"tag-seoul","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-xi-jinping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}