{"id":39429,"date":"2025-07-29T23:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=39429"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:10:44","slug":"china-u-s-hold-constructive-candid-trade-talks-in-stockholm-progress-on-tariffs-and-economic-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=39429","title":{"rendered":"China &#038; U.S. Hold Constructive, Candid Trade Talks in Stockholm: Progress on Tariffs and Economic Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>STOCKHOLM, July 29 (Xinhua)<\/strong> \u2014 Senior Chinese trade official Li Chenggang announced that China and the United States conducted <em>in-depth, candid, and constructive<\/em> economic and trade discussions during a new round of bilateral talks held in Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Li, who serves as China\u2019s International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce, briefed the press following the meeting on Tuesday, highlighting a mutual commitment to strengthening economic ties and addressing key trade concerns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the talks, both sides expressed their intention to continue the suspension of 24 percent of reciprocal tariffs imposed by the U.S., along with China\u2019s countermeasures, reflecting a shared interest in de-escalating trade tensions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe two sides are fully aware of the importance of safeguarding stable and sound China-U.S. economic relations,\u201d Li said. He emphasized that both delegations engaged in open dialogue over each other&#8217;s primary trade and economic issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the past 36 hours, negotiators reviewed the implementation of earlier agreements reached in Geneva and London, with both parties acknowledging significant progress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Looking ahead, Li stated that Chinese and American trade teams will maintain close communication, hold timely consultations, and work jointly to promote the <em>stable and healthy development<\/em> of bilateral economic and trade relations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The talks come amid ongoing global efforts to ensure economic resilience and cooperation between the world\u2019s two largest economies.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tdMO5DYbCHD7lWLm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39430 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tdMO5DYbCHD7lWLm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"999\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tdMO5DYbCHD7lWLm.png 999w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tdMO5DYbCHD7lWLm-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tdMO5DYbCHD7lWLm-768x525.png 768w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tdMO5DYbCHD7lWLm-220x150.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM, July 29 (Xinhua) \u2014 Senior Chinese trade official Li Chenggang announced that China and the United States conducted in-depth, candid, and constructive economic and trade discussions during a new round of bilateral talks held in Stockholm, Sweden. Li, who serves as China\u2019s International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce, briefed the press following &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4220,388],"tags":[21143,3147,20893,1446,21144,2158,3377,1818],"class_list":["post-39429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-slide","tag-candid","tag-china","tag-constructive","tag-hold","tag-in-stockholm-progress-on-tariffs-and-economic-cooperation","tag-talks","tag-trade","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39432,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39429\/revisions\/39432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}