The New York Times reports: "The leaders of China and North Korea met for the second time in two months on Tuesday, staying overnight in this Chinese port city as China worked to regain control in the fast-moving diplomacy over the North's nuclear program. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, flew to Dalian on Monday, where he held long rounds of discussions with Chinese officials, attended a formal banquet, and took a stroll on a beachfront sidewalk with China's president, Xi Jinping. The pageantry was shown at length on China's state-run evening television news, with the two men looking like friends, if rather stiff ones. The Chinese leader appeared intent on showing that the frayed relationship with North Korea was now repaired, and that China was as important to resolving the problems of North Korea's nuclear weapons as the United States."
CNN reports: "The United States and China will hold a new round of trade talks after no breakthroughs emerged from their first meeting. Chinese President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, Liu He, will visit Washington next week to continue discussions with President Donald Trump's economic team, the White House said Monday. Liu led the Chinese delegation that spent two days negotiating in Beijing last week with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and other senior US officials. Beijing and Washington are trying to avoid a trade war between the world's two largest economies. They have ramped up tensions in recent weeks with threats to impose tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of each other's products."
Financial Times reports: "Banned component sales. A blocked $142bn chip takeover. Fresh concessions demanded on a second chip deal. If this is just the warm-up, analysts say the US-China tech wars look likely to severely disrupt the global tech sector on both sides of the Pacific. Such disputes are rooted in US anxiety over China's tech power and the methods it employs to amass it. They are set to intensify with Washington's Section 301 investigation into the alleged Chinese theft of US intellectual property and practice of forcing technology transfers from foreign investors. Early strikes have hit at hardware companies, including smartphone and telecoms equipment maker Huawei... and rival ZTE. Huawei denies its technology is used for surveillance."