US-China negotiators race to nail down concrete deals as Shenzhen Apec looms

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US and Chinese negotiators are racing to secure investment and economic agreements before a planned leaders' meeting in Shenzhen next month. Talks remain complicated by disagreements over institutional frameworks and leverage in extending the broader trade arrangement.

The US and China are racing to secure concrete investment deals ahead of their leaders’ meeting in Shenzhen next month, even as both sides engage in a contest over leverage in extending their broad trade agreement. Multiple sources told the South China Morning Post that intense negotiations would continue in coming weeks, with Washington and Beijing still facing hurdles to finalising a complex package of institutional frameworks and economic agreements. The sources, who spoke on condition of...