Top Trump officials to meet Chinese counterparts amid trade war

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Senior US officials are set to meet a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend, the administration said, in the first major talks between the two nations since Donald Trump sparked a trade war between them.

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and trade representative Jamieson Greer will meet their counterparts in Geneva in the most-senior known conversations between the two countries in months.