Meeting in Madrid opens 4th round of dialogue in 4 months and includes national security topics and disputes on products
USA e China started this Sunday (14.Set.2025) in Mothers The 4th round of economic negotiations in 4 months. Delegations discuss national trade and security, including the future of the application Tiktok in the US, according to Reuters.
The US team is led by the Treasury Secretary, Scott Bettingand by the trade representative, Jamieson Greer. The Chinese group has the deputy premie He Lifeng. The conversations began on Sunday afternoon.
O Ministry of Commerce of China He reported that his delegation will remain in Spain until September 17. Bessent’s trip is a broader script, from September 12 to 18, which includes commitments in the United Kingdom.
One of the points of the agenda is Bytedance’s Tiktok, whose deadline to define agreement that allows its continuity in the US expires on September 18.
Conversations also prepare land for a possible meeting between the president Donald Trump and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, at the summit of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)scheduled for October at South Korea.
Prior to the meeting in Madrid, China announced two investigations against the US semiconductor industry, including an anti-dumping process on certain analog chips.
Already the US included 23 Chinese companies on its list of restricted entities, imposing limits on business considered “Contrary to national security or US foreign policy interests”.
Madrid was chosen as a neutral point for dialogue between the two largest economies in the world. Trump’s agenda also includes UK commitments this week.
