To all of you on vacation last week, welcome back! I assume many of your inboxes are quite full. If you want a quick catchup on the big China-related stories from last week please check out the Lunar New Year roundup I published over the weekend. The US-China trade talks have resumed in Beijing this week. The deputies started meeting today in Beijing, and as Hu Xijin tweeted, Liu He made an appearance:
For what it's worth, I just returned from dinner tonight with two of my mid-30's friends who were absolutely gushing about Trump to an extent that even I, as a huge Trump supporter, couldn't compare. Evidently, they see him as a counter-weight to just about everything Xi and his minions are proposing. On the other hand, my largest investor is 110% Xi today, Xi tomorrow, and Xi forever, although I get the impression that in his case, Xi is no more than a proxy for China.
Xi to Mar-a-Lago?; Liu He stops by trade talks; Lowering Q1 GDP expectations
For what it's worth, I just returned from dinner tonight with two of my mid-30's friends who were absolutely gushing about Trump to an extent that even I, as a huge Trump supporter, couldn't compare. Evidently, they see him as a counter-weight to just about everything Xi and his minions are proposing. On the other hand, my largest investor is 110% Xi today, Xi tomorrow, and Xi forever, although I get the impression that in his case, Xi is no more than a proxy for China.