{"id":9739,"date":"2017-11-09T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:21:57","slug":"us-chinese-firms-sign-20-deals-worth-9-billion-during-donald-trumps-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/us-chinese-firms-sign-20-deals-worth-9-billion-during-donald-trumps-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Chinese firms sign 20 deals worth $9 billion during Donald Trump\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US and Chinese companies signed nearly 20 deals worth a total $9 billion on Wednesday at the start of President Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross and Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang oversaw a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People but they did not immediately give details about the 19 deals.<\/p>\n<p>Wang said the agreements were merely a \u201cwarmup\u201d before Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping oversee their own ceremony on Thursday involving bigger deals, including in exports of natural gas and soybeans.<\/p>\n<p>Trump plans to use the three-day trip to press Xi on China\u2019s massive trade surplus with the United States, which slightly fell in October to $26.6 billion, according to official Chinese data released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAddressing the imbalance in China trade has been the central focus of collaborative discussions between President Trump and President Xi,\u201d Ross said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAchieving fair and reciprocal treatment for the companies is a shared objective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Wang said: Economic deals are \u201can important ballast for the overall bilateral relationship\u201d, adding he believed they would contribute to its \u201cstabilisation\u201d.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Chinese companies signed nearly 20 deals worth a total $9 billion on Wednesday at the start of President Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to Beijing. US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross and Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang oversaw a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People but they did not immediately give details about [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9741,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions\/9741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}