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The Chinese Executive Minister for Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu will take part in the G20 meeting of Foreign Minister in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 21, 2024.

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The United States and China agreed to keep the lines of communication open on Thursday after a call between high -ranking civil servants, and signaled that both sides work towards a wider offer.

The deputy Chinese Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu and the deputy US Foreign Minister Christopher Landau exchanged views on a number of important questions during the call, so that both sides were published in narrow statements without determining whether tariffs were among the topics discussed.

While the call may not indicate a breakthrough in the ongoing trading talks, it is a “positive sign” with which Beijing now knows who you should talk to on the US team, Dan Wang, director of political risk advice in Eurasia, said “the communication channel set up in the Geneva talks”.

After the high -ranking conversations in Geneva, Switzerland, at the beginning of this month, both sides emitted a rare joint explanation in order to temporarily lower most tariffs of the goods and to go to a more comprehensive agreement.

The last time that both sides made a joint explanation was in November 2023, which focused on climate cooperation.

The call between Ma and Landau was the second call at a diplomatic level between the USA and China during the second term of US President Donald Trump, said Xinbo Wu, director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke to the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in January after Trump returned to office.

The call on Thursday signals that both sides “connect” on a diplomatic level and may prepare for upcoming talks about the cooperation of Beijing in the containment of fentanyl currents, said WU.

At the beginning of this week, MA had met with the new US ambassador to China, David Perdue, and signaled that Beijing hopes to be able to adapt more precisely in the ongoing trade discussion in the United States.

In this meeting, Perdue said that he shared Trump's priorities for bilateral relationships according to a post on his X account. “I look forward to working with the ministry and my colleagues to achieve concrete results for the American people,” he said in the post.

Trump has made it a priority to curb the flow of fentanyl female from China that are used to manufacture the fatal opioid. He also asked Beijing to open his markets for the USA

Perdue's arrival in Beijing came when a trade war between the two largest economies in the world had committed fears before a broader “decoupling”.

Former US senator David Perdue looks at his swear in his swearing in the ceremony to be the new US ambassador to China on May 7, 2025 by the US President Donald Trump in the White House in Washington, DC, USA.

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According to industry surveys and economists, which are not completed by the temporary collective bargaining, Chinese exporters try to diversify from the US market, while American companies accelerate the efforts to postpone the production from China.

In a separate meeting with JPmorgan Chase Jamie Dimon On Thursday, the Chinese Vice Prime Minister Lifeng said that negotiations with the USA about economic and trade problems had “made considerable progress” and emphasized Beijing's attitude to continue to open the market for American companies in China.

Yuyuantantian, a social media account associated with the CCTV of the Chinese state media, claimed that Dimon said in meetings with Chinese officials that the US government does not want to decouple with China.

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Despite the latest de-escalation after the Geneva talks, Beijing and Washington continued to act contradictions.

The Chinese authorities have granted themselves against a US decision that warned companies not to use Chinese artificial intelligence chips, in particular those provided by Huawei Technologies.

The recent dispute over the use of Chinese semiconductor chips underlined the “inevitable collision” between the two countries in certain strategic sectors, Nomura analyst said on Friday.

“The strategic decoupling remains inevitable,” said the analysts and expected that the Trump government use more targeted sectoral tariffs and non-tariff measures to involve China's access to advanced technology. In response to this, China could tighten his export controls on rare earth in the USA, said Nomura.

At the beginning of this week, China's Ministry of Commerce described the move as “one -sided bullying” and responsible, the United States is responsible for undermining the trade talks in order to take determined measures to protect their rights and interests.

Correction: This story has been updated to think that the call was deputy foreign minister Christopher Landau.