Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is The Point.
First, rare earths, now energy imports from Russia and Iran.
The U.S. seems to be sending mixed signals about its sincerity in... trade talks with China.
The two sides just wrapped up their today's latest talks in Stockholm,
Sweden on Tuesday before the U.S. talked of imposing potential punitive tariffs of up to 500% on those who import energy from Russia and Iran.
And he's calling... on the US's allies to follow suit on that.
What's really going on?
What progress, if at all,
has the latest Stockholm talks achieved for bilateral trade between the world's two largest economies and the world?
what to expect next welcome to this edition with me lucien coming to you from beijing i'm pleased to be joined from quinshan jiangsu province in east china by john quelch executive vice chancellor of and the american president and distinguished professor of social science at quinshan duke university from the city of The Trade Talks,
Stockholm, by Hussein Askari, Vice Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute,
and here in the studio by Victor Gao, Chair Professor at Suzhou University.
Gentlemen, welcome to the show.
First of all, let's refresh our memory of the timeline of the latest China-US trade talks.
On May the 12th,
China and the US reached a breakthrough consensus after their first trade meeting in Geneva,
Switzerland.
They agreed to cancel the 91.
percent additional tariffs levied on each other since Trump's so-called Liberation Day.