Only virtual talks, no new investment push before Xi-Trump summit: Greer

Just weeks before a planned summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Washington’s top trade negotiator signalled a cautious, tightly managed approach to China ties, ruling out a pre-summit visit to Beijing, favouring continued virtual engagement, and indicating no new push to expand bilateral investment.US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer indicated on Tuesday that preparatory talks with Chinese counterparts would take place virtually, ruling out an in-person trip to Beijing before the summit even as working-level discussions continue.“There’s a Zoom call coming up,” he told the China-morning-post" class="entity-link entity-organization" data-entity-id="12558" data-entity-type="organization">South China Morning Post on the sidelines of a Hudson Institute event in Washington, adding that a pre-summit visit to the Chinese capital was unnecessary because “working-level groups were meeting regularly”.