Hassett says 'absolutely' expecting progress from trade talks with China today
- US seeks handshake on rare earths agreement from China in London
- US expects export controls will be eased and rare earths will be released in volume
- Meeting today is to be a short one but it will bear results
Anyone remembers the whole soybean fiasco back in 2019? This is going to be exactly that in a few months. I can see China offering up some gesture of goodwill like they did here. But to expect a major concession with little else brought to the table from the US side is expecting too much in my view. We'll see.