China’s surprisingly quick agreement with the US to wind back punitive tariff rates put a spotlight on a Chinese negotiating team that features decades worth of technical trade experience alongside a top aide of President Xi Jinping.

President Xi Jinping announced on Tuesday the launch of five programs for cooperation between China and Latin American and Caribbean countries, covering areas such as politics, economic development and people-to-people exchanges, and he called on the two sides to jointly write a new chapter in building the China-LAC community with a shared future.

SiCarrier, a Chinese chip equipment maker with close links to Huawei, has created a stir with the breadth of its planned product range. Its efforts to become a one-stop shop for all tools needed to semiconductors illustrate how the sector - still relatively young in China - is responding to President Xi Jinping's call to reduce the country's reliance on foreign suppliers.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he could speak with China's President Xi Jinping at the end of the week amid progress between the two economic rivals on a trade deal.

Xi Jinping has pledged support for Panama against US pressure over ownership of its ports and offered greater co-operation with Latin American countries in areas including law enforcement as Beijing courts a region that Washington has traditionally considered its backyard.

Beijing has stepped up economic and political cooperation with Latin American nations in recent years. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A s president xi jinping stood shoulder to shoulder with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, watching Russian and Chinese soldiers marching across Red Square on May 9th, they could have been mistaken for equals.

China's President Xi Jinping will attend the opening of and deliver a speech at the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing on May 13, China's Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday.