EU-China trade talks; Reality after the Xi-Trump meeting; US-China AI/SI

The PRC gets back to work Thursday after the long vacation for National Day. For those of you who got the week off, I hope you had a nice holiday. Today’s newsletter is a bit of a catch-up ahead of the return to the daily grind PRC Ministry of Commerce officials did not get much of a vacation as they prepare for the visit of European trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič, who arrives Thursday for two days of talks that seem unlikely to head off escalation in the EU-PRC trade tensions.

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