Top Chinese economic and trade officials will meet their US counterparts in Washington today in the wake of US$5 billion (S$6.8 billion) worth of deals to import American beef and soya bean, and a strong signal from President Xi Jinping on further opening of the Chinese market.

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But while early gains for the US – and for China exporting Chinese poultry to the US – have materialised, these are “far from being meaningful enough and the American complaints on steel and aluminium have been very vocal,” Ms Yun Sun, a fellow at the Stimson Centre in Washington DC, told The Straits Times.

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