W HEN HE FIRES his trade weapons at China, President Donald Trump often appears to shoot from the hip. Officials in Beijing, by contrast, are said to deliberate much more, convening high-level meetings among ministries and regulators to determine their country’s next steps.

U.S. and Chinese officials at the senior staff level talked on Monday following a flare-up in trade tensions between the two geopolitical rivals, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC in an Tuesday interview.

Gulf stocks ended mixed on Monday amid renewed U.S.-China trade tensions and expectations of U.S. Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts, while oil prices rebounded from five-month lows.

Stock markets rebounded on Monday after Donald Trump appeared to row back from his threat to impose punishing new tariffs on Chinese imports, saying that the US “wants to help China, not hurt it!!!” The S&P 500 index closed 1.

Stocks in the United States recovered from their worst decline in months, after President Trump softened his tariff threat on China. But markets in Asia dropped.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has lashed out at China, accusing the Asian powerhouse of trying to “slow down” the global economy amid its trade war with President Donald Trump. Bessent accused Beijing of overplaying its hand after it announced new restrictions on the export of rare earth metals and minerals,

It looks like U.S.-China trade tensions may be cooling off - at least for now. Overnight, President Trump struck a surprisingly upbeat tone on Truth Social, writing: “Don’t worry about China, it will all be