{"id":1541013,"date":"2025-06-10T23:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1541013"},"modified":"2025-06-10T23:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:41:20","slug":"us-china-agree-in-principle-on-framework-for-implementing-geneva-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-china-agree-in-principle-on-framework-for-implementing-geneva-consensus\/1541013\/","title":{"rendered":"US, China &#8220;Agree In Principle On Framework For Implementing Geneva Consensus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">US, China &#8220;Agree In Principle On Framework For Implementing Geneva Consensus&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>After a full second day of discussion on the US-China trade deal, we finally have&#8230; something.<\/p>\n<p>As Bloomberg reports, just before midnight London time, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and China\u2019s Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang both said they have <strong>agreed in principle on &#8220;a framework for implementing the Geneva consensus&#8221; combined with the outcome of the leaders June 5th call.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the presidents approve it, we will then seek to implement it,\u201d Lutnick added.<\/p>\n<p>If it sounds confusing, it is: the parties said they will <em>implement a framework <\/em>which was already agreed upon weeks ago&#8230; so what exactly were the talks for? Shouldn&#8217;t there have been at least some token progress beyond what was already agreed upon, hence &#8220;consensus.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lutnick adding that \u201cWe absolutely expect that the topic of rare earth minerals and magnets\u2026 will be resolved in this framework implementation,&#8221; does not make it any clearer if there is any actual deal on rare earths and\/or chips&#8230; or just an agreement to continue talks?<\/p>\n<p>Lutnick continued: \u201cAlso, <strong>there were a number of measures the US put on when those rare earths were not coming<\/strong>\u2026 You should expect those to come off \u2014 sort of, as President Trump said, in a balanced way. <strong>When they approve the licenses, then you should expect that our export implementation will come down as well\u201d <\/strong>which\u00a0suggests that <strong>nothing has been resolved at this stage, and instead we just wait for China to start exporting rare earth minerals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And yes, for all the pomp and circumstance, it appears that all that took place in the past 48 hours was some meetings over coffee and KFC, because as Lutnick also said, the &#8220;<strong>framework is a first step, we had to get the negativity out.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, the negativity may be out, but no actual deals or agreements are in; instead\u00a0<strong>agreement\u00a0was reached to implement the implementation of an already agreed upon consensus.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Commerce secretary said that the idea behind the framework is to increase trade with China, which is great but wasn&#8217;t the <strong>whole point of the negotiation to rebalance trade, <\/strong>not merely increase it? After all, it&#8217;s very easy to receive even more Chinese exports and &#8220;increase trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said there <strong>were no other meetings scheduled, <\/strong>but added that the American and Chinese sides talk frequently and are able to do so whenever they need.<\/p>\n<p>US-China trade talks wrapped up in London just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached a framework to implement the Geneva consensus,\u201d Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the presidents approve it, we will then seek to implement it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eMu3xRb4y6\">pic.twitter.com\/eMu3xRb4y6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 annmarie hordern (@annmarie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annmarie\/status\/1932582717666804107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the news, gold fell through 3320 but promptly rebounded as the market realized that what the announcement effectively boils down to is that the two sides have agreed to speak more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spoos were trading at 6,040, before jerking higher, lower, and at last check trading unchanged from where they closed the regular session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ES%202025-06-10_19-30-19.jpg?itok=QcoFRrZG\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In FX, cross-JPY buying morphed into broad USD selling with cross-JPY not really gaining traction; USDJPY is back under 145 after rising to a high of 145.10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 06\/10\/2025 &#8211; 19:41<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/us-china-agree-principle-framework-implementing-geneva-consensus\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/us-china-agree-principle-framework-implementing-geneva-consensus<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US, China &#8220;Agree In Principle On Framework For Implementing Geneva Consensus&#8221; After a full second day of discussion on the US-China trade deal, we finally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1541014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}