Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary, has warned China to avoid “soft commitments” in a new round of trade talks expected to follow a ceasefire deal reached at the weekend between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
In a telephone interview with the Financial Times the day after the truce was sealed at a dinner following the G20 summit, Mr Mnuchin urged Beijing to flesh out pledges made in Buenos Aires in negotiations over the next three months.
“There’s a 100 per cent unanimous view on our economic team that this needs to be a real agreement,” Mr Mnuchin said. “These can’t be soft commitments from China. There need to be specific dates, specific action items,” he added.
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