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LONDON (AP) \u2014 High-level delegations from the United States and China met in London on Monday to try and shore up a fragile truce in a trade dispute<\/a> that has roiled the global economy,<\/p>\n

A Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier He Lifeng held talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at Lancaster House, an ornate 200-year-old mansion near Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n

Wang Wentao, China\u2019s commerce minister, also was part of Beijing\u2019s delegation.<\/p>\n

The talks, which may continue Tuesday, follow negotiations in Geneva last month<\/a> that brought a temporary respite in the trade war. <\/p>\n

The two countries announced May 12 they had agreed to a 90-day suspension of most of the 100%-plus tariffs they had imposed on each other in an escalating trade war that had sparked fears of recession<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The U.S. and China are the world\u2019s biggest and second-biggest economies. Chinese trade data<\/a> shows that exports to the United States fell 35% in May from a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Since the Geneva talks, the U.S. and China have exchanged angry words over advanced semiconductors that power artificial intelligence, visas for Chinese students<\/a> at American universities and ” rare earth<\/a> \u201d minerals that are vital to carmakers and other industries.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump spoke at length<\/a> with Chinese leader Xi Jinping by phone last Thursday in an attempt to put relations back on track. Trump announced on social media the following day that the trade talks would resume<\/a> in London. <\/p>\n

Rare earths were expected to be a focus of the talks. The Chinese government started requiring producers to obtain a license to export seven rare earth elements in April. Resulting shortages sent automakers worldwide into a tizzy. As stockpiles ran down, some worried they would have to halt production.<\/p>\n

Beijing indicated Saturday that it is addressing the concerns, which have come from European companies as well as U.S. firms.<\/p>\n

Kevin Hassett, a U.S. economic adviser, told CNBC on Monday that he expected a short meeting with \u201ca big, strong handshake\u201d on rare earths.<\/p>\n

The U.K. government says it is providing the venue and logistics but is not involved in the talks, though British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves met with both Bessent and He on Sunday, and U.K. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds was due to meet Wang.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a nation that champions free trade and have always been clear that a trade war is in nobody\u2019s interests, so we welcome these talks,\u201d the British government said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press Writer Didi Tang in Washington contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 High-level delegations from the United States and China met in London on Monday to try…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[11410,748,51,65038,1395,7684,32,393,4179,4884,14009,8615,3058,1443,13730,257,285,15895,619,7686,5214,16,15,11654,71482,10673,263,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-171808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-ownership","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-china-government","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-general-news","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-howard-lutnick","19":"tag-international-news","20":"tag-international-trade","21":"tag-jonathan-reynolds","22":"tag-kevin-hassett","23":"tag-london","24":"tag-politics","25":"tag-race-and-ethnicity","26":"tag-rachel-reeves","27":"tag-scott-bessent","28":"tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","29":"tag-uk","30":"tag-united-kingdom","31":"tag-united-kingdom-government","32":"tag-wang-wentao","33":"tag-washington-news","34":"tag-world-news","35":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114656713689877463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}