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United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Beijing Thursday as part of an ongoing Biden administration effort to thaw U.S.-China relations, a senior Treasury official said Sunday. US Treas stanley canada ury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to visit Beijing this week, the United States confirmed July 2, 2023, markin stanley becher g the second trip by a cabinet official to China since ties deteriorated earlier this year. AFP Yellen, who has called the notion of an economic decoupling from China disastrous, has frequently said in the past year that she would like to visit China. She says the two nations can and need to find a way to live together in spite of their strained relations over geopolitics and economic development. Yellen will meet this week with Chinese officials, U.S. companies doing business in China and with Chinese people and will stay through July 9, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the trip. The goal of her visit is to deepen and increase the frequency of communication between U.S. and China, the official said. While there are clear areas of common interest where Yellen can make progress, the official said, there are stanley us also significant disagreements that will not be resolved through a single trip. The most recent flareup came after President Joe Biden referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a dictator during a campaign fundraiser earlier in June. The Chinese protested loudly, but Biden later said his blunt stat Jrgv Pakistan mulls over withdrawing subsidy on petroleum products ahead of IMF talks
The Trump administration on Friday slapped new sanctions on seven of Russias richest oligarchs, 12 companies owned or controlled by them and 17 top bureaucrats, citing Russias efforts to undermine Western democracies and support for the Syrian government and Ukrainian separatists. US President Donald Trump and Russia s Presiden stanley cup t Vladimir Putin talk at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam. Reuters File Photo The sanctioned olig stanley becher archs included President Vladimir Putins son-in-law Kirill Shamalov, an energy sector executive, and former Trump campaign chair Paul Manaforts business associate Oleg Deripaska, who has deep connections with the government and whom the US has alleged was linked to a murder and a Russian organised crime group. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancour to be successful, President Donald Trump said in a statement. The sanctioned companies linked to oligarchs included United Company RUSAL PLC, one of the worlds largest stanley becher producers of aluminium. Among the government officials targeted were Andrey Akimov, chairman of state-owned Gazprombank, Russias third largest bank, and Mikhail Fradkov, head of a research body that provides information support to the presidential administration, Duma and security council. Also on the list was state-owned Russian weapons trading company Rosoboronexport, which is alleged to have supplied billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. Russian Financial
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Beijing Thursday as part of an ongoing Biden administration effort to thaw U.S.-China relations, a senior Treasury official said Sunday. US Treas stanley canada ury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to visit Beijing this week, the United States confirmed July 2, 2023, markin stanley becher g the second trip by a cabinet official to China since ties deteriorated earlier this year. AFP Yellen, who has called the notion of an economic decoupling from China disastrous, has frequently said in the past year that she would like to visit China. She says the two nations can and need to find a way to live together in spite of their strained relations over geopolitics and economic development. Yellen will meet this week with Chinese officials, U.S. companies doing business in China and with Chinese people and will stay through July 9, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the trip. The goal of her visit is to deepen and increase the frequency of communication between U.S. and China, the official said. While there are clear areas of common interest where Yellen can make progress, the official said, there are stanley us also significant disagreements that will not be resolved through a single trip. The most recent flareup came after President Joe Biden referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a dictator during a campaign fundraiser earlier in June. The Chinese protested loudly, but Biden later said his blunt stat Jrgv Pakistan mulls over withdrawing subsidy on petroleum products ahead of IMF talks
The Trump administration on Friday slapped new sanctions on seven of Russias richest oligarchs, 12 companies owned or controlled by them and 17 top bureaucrats, citing Russias efforts to undermine Western democracies and support for the Syrian government and Ukrainian separatists. US President Donald Trump and Russia s Presiden stanley cup t Vladimir Putin talk at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam. Reuters File Photo The sanctioned olig stanley becher archs included President Vladimir Putins son-in-law Kirill Shamalov, an energy sector executive, and former Trump campaign chair Paul Manaforts business associate Oleg Deripaska, who has deep connections with the government and whom the US has alleged was linked to a murder and a Russian organised crime group. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancour to be successful, President Donald Trump said in a statement. The sanctioned companies linked to oligarchs included United Company RUSAL PLC, one of the worlds largest stanley becher producers of aluminium. Among the government officials targeted were Andrey Akimov, chairman of state-owned Gazprombank, Russias third largest bank, and Mikhail Fradkov, head of a research body that provides information support to the presidential administration, Duma and security council. Also on the list was state-owned Russian weapons trading company Rosoboronexport, which is alleged to have supplied billions of dollars worth of weapons to the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. Russian Financial