Trade War Truce — and a Five Year Plan
About this episode
The episode discusses the recent truce in the US-China trade war and its implications for China's Five Year Plan.
China and the US reached a truce in their trade war at the recent meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in South Korea. And the two leaders even pledged to visit each other’s countries next year. But US tariffs on Chinese imports remain at around 47% — and a dispute over the export of US semiconductor chips to China looks set to continue. These tensions seem to have informed the Communist Party’s newly released proposals for China’s next Five Year Plan, which focus on innovation and mak...
Topics covered
- trade war
- US-China relations
- economic policy
- innovation
- Five Year Plan
Keywords
- trade war
- China
- US
- tariffs
- semiconductor chips
- Five Year Plan
- innovation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Communist Party, US, China
Products: semiconductor chips
Books & works: Five Year Plan
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