China agrees with U.S. to set up trade and investment bodies

May 17, 2026

Wall Street Journal: A U.S.-China Board of Trade would be used to discuss tariff reduction on certain products, the Chinese ministry said, without elaborating. Neither did it offer any specifics on how a U.S.-China Board of Investment would operate, though the White House said Thursday that Trump and Xi had discussed “increasing Chinese investment into our industries.”…