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Their position is: 'If Xi wants the tariffs lifted, he knows how to reach us,
Russel said
It may be pride, it may be protocol, but for Beijing, being the demandeur is to show weakness -- and that's something the Chinese system is hardwired to avoid,
said Russel, now vice president for international security and diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy InstituteThe obsession with who reached out first is a proxy fight over leverage,
said Craig Singleton, senior director of the China program at the Washington-based think tank Foundation for Defense of DemocraciesAfter careful evaluation of these US overtures and on the basis of fully considering global expectations, China’s interests, and the appeals of US industry and consumers, China has decided to re-engage the US,
a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said
In this regard, the Chinese side is assessing it,
the ministry said, in an apparent off-ramp move climbdown that prepared the public opinion for the announcement a few days later that Vice Premier He Lifeng would meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Switzerland this weekend
They said we initiated it? Well, I think they ought to go back and study their files,
Trump said Wednesday when swearing in David Perdue as the new U.S. ambassador to ChinaAll is fake news."
When asked about such negotiations, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun respondedTechnically, ... both sides are correct."
Sun saidIt only matters what happens in that room."
Referring to the upcoming tariff talk this weekend in Switzerland, Trump saidHe's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf,
Trump said in the interview published on April 25.I think it's a process that's going to go pretty quickly with China,
Trump said on the same dayWe can all play games -- who made the first call, who didn't make them. Doesn't matter,
Trump said