Brookings Institution: Day and Share View

brookings institution: Both sides see moderate progress on a wide-ranging 100-day economic action plan, first unveiled at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in April that covers such areas as financial services, investment, energy and trade a topic close to the U.S. president's heart, according to The Japan Times. Evans Revere, an analyst at Brookings Institution, said Both sides seem to share the view that the 100-day plan is largely on track. Speaking in Paris on Thursday, the American leader was full of praise for Xi, proclaiming him a friend for whom he has great respect, a great leader and a very talented man. ; The expressions of admiration have gone both ways a day earlier Beijing's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang had hailed positive advances in China-U.S. economic cooperation based on a spirit of consensus between the two leaders. Jake Parker, vice president of the U.S.-China Business Council in Beijing, largely agreed Overall, the 100-day outcomes are positive first steps addressing lingering issues in the U.S.-China commercial relationship, he said, while adding that more needed to be done to address structural issues such as foreign investment restrictions. The U.S. appears bitterly disappointed over China's failure to exert pressure on North Korea in the wake of its first ever intercontinental ballistic missile test, while Beijing has been left fuming at American incursions into disputed territory in the South China Sea, arms sales to Taiwan and statements on human rights. But despite the effusive rhetoric, that progress has not been matched in other areas of the relationship with ever widening rifts on a host of foreign policy issues. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.