India's foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, met with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, at the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting in Moscow.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's head cited unjust business practices and industrial espionage by China, including attempts to steal coronavirus research, and accused it of abusing student visas to exploit U.S. academia.
Some economists in China lay out their view on what high-level political talk of "dual circulation" means for China's role in international trade going forward.
Gold jumped over 1% on Wednesday as the dollar slipped on the eve of a speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and as investors bet on further stimulus to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Gold recovered after dipping below the key $1,900 level at one point on Wednesday and registering its worst fall in seven years in the last session as bleak economic data underscored concerns over a pandemic-led slowdown.
China's President Xi Jinping has affirmed his country's commitment to working with others, as he pushed for the cementing of the role of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in the global economic governance system.
China would prefer to see U.S. President Donald Trump win a second term in office as it would allow Beijing to continue to pursue its international ambitions, said an analyst on Monday.
Pompeo's seeming attempt to rally the Chinese people against the Communist Party of China has the opposite effect, said Daniel Russel, former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.
The relationship between the U.S. and China may continue to worsen after the State Department ordered Beijing to close a consulate in Houston, making it "almost certain" the Asian country will retaliate, experts said on Thursday.
The discussions center on whether to deny visas to tens of millions of Chinese in what would be one of Washington's toughest actions yet in a widening feud with Beijing that some have likened to a new Cold War.
The global leadership vacuum during the coronavirus crisis is an "open door" for China to walk into, said Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.
China said Friday it will retaliate against U.S. officials and institutions following Washington's imposition of sanctions on three local officials of the ruling Communist Party over human rights abuses in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
China's top two foreign ministers kept to a conciliatory tone this week in public remarks about relations with the U.S., amid increasingly fraught tensions between the world's two largest economies.
U.S. and China relations could deteriorate further as both countries have signaled that they're prepared to fight in more areas, said Todd Mariano, director for U.S. at Eurasia Group.