U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent arrives to the foreign ministry in Madrid ahead of trade talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Madrid on Sept. 14, 2025. Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. and Chinese officials continued trade talks on Sept. 14 in a meeting at the Palacio de Santa Cruz in Madrid.
On the agenda are the new tariffs the administration wants to levy on the Chinese communist regime over its purchase of sanctioned Russian oil, the looming deadline for Chinese company ByteDance to divest of TikTok, and Chinese money laundering.
