Hong Kong leader: Xi-Trump summit to boost city's economy
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- Hong Kong's economy and trade with the US will benefit from the stability and certainty brought by the Xi-Trump summit, according to Chief Executive John Lee.
- He stated that market certainty reduces external turbulence's impact on the city.
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Hong Kong's economy is heavily reliant on international trade. The city's leader, John Lee, believes that increased stability and certainty in the relationship between China and the United States, stemming from a recent summit, will positively impact Hong Kong's economic and trade development.
Hong Kong’s economy and trade with the United States will benefit from greater stability and certainty brought by the summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump, the city’s leader has said.
“Hong Kong is an externally oriented economy, susceptible to the influence of the main market,” Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Tuesday. “More certainty and stability in the market will greatly reduce the impact of external turbulence on Hong Kong.”
Last week’s Xi-Trump summit saw the two leaders agree to build a “constructive China-US relationship of strategic stability”, with both sides signalling interest in deeper cooperation on trade, investment and artificial intelligence.
Xi is also expected to make a state visit to the US this autumn, his first in more than a decade.
Speaking ahead of the city’s top decision-making Executive Council meeting, Lee described the summit as historic and landmark, highlighting the consensus reached by the two leaders to maintain stable economic and trade ties, expand practical cooperation and properly address each other’s concerns.
“The consensus reached by the two heads of government injects more certainty and stability into the China-US economic and trade relationship and global economy,” Lee said, pointing to positive outcomes in tariff arrangements, trade and investment cooperation, market access and the purchase of goods.
“Such certainty and stability are beneficial to Hong Kong’s economic and trade development, beneficial to Hong Kong-US trade, and also beneficial to world trade.”
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Xi Jinping will make a state visit to the US.
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Preguntas abiertas
- What specific tariff arrangements were agreed upon?
- What are the details of the planned cooperation on trade and investment?
- What are the specific concerns each side will address?
- What is the exact date of Xi Jinping's state visit to the US?
