Who’s next to Xi Jinping and Donald Trump set the tone in the trade conflict between the US and China? From whom is the US President and his Chinese counterpart, you can advise?
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping (the article’s picture) are the best known faces of the trade conflict between the two largest economies in the world. However, there are a number of consultants and officials of the party are, in Washington or Beijing tough negotiation. Who exercise but on the American side, from the 81-year-old trade Minister Wilbur Ross aside, the greatest influence on the negotiations? Who are your opponents and what do we know about the representative of Beijing, on the other side of the negotiating table? We introduce the main protagonists.
The trade representative of the United States, Robert Lighthizer, as a man of quiet sounds that can occasionally flare up also
Robert Lighthizer
The 1947-born lawyer, worked since the early 1970s, as a lawyer in Washington, first for a law firm, then starting in 1978 as corporate counsel for the Republicans in the U.S. Senate. Under Ronald Reagan, he was from 1983, Deputy US trade representative. After that, he spent 30 years as a commercial lawyer and has advised US companies in foreign countries in tax and trade issues. Lighthizer is a staunch critic of the world trade organisation WTO and multilateral trade agreements. He denounces, for many years, the China’s state and party leadership pursued economic course is for him not a market economy, but purely mercantilist. Since the appointment of Donald Trump Lighthizer, the U.S. trade officer and for the negotiation and structuring of commercial contracts, the United States is responsible.
Ex-investment banker and TV columnist Larry Kudlow, many Americans know mainly from the TV
Larry Kudlow
The 71-Year-old worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York and as an economic adviser in the White house under Ronald Reagan. For a scandal to be a retreat from the Post of chief Economist of the investment Bank Bear Stearns in 1994 – as a result of alcohol and cocaine problems, like the US media made at the time reported. After that, he made a name for himself as an economic commentator on the US TV channel CNBC. Kudlow is since the resignation of Gary Cohn’s Director of the National economic Council. His influence on the China policy of Donald Trump should not, however, be crucial: Kudlow has always been regarded as a staunch advocate of free world trade and apparently has a hard time against the hard-liners Robert Lighthizer, and Peter Navarro.
Ran once unsuccessfully for the Democrats in southern California: China-Falke Peter Navarro
Peter Navarro
Peter Navarro was a co-author of Donald Trumps the economic choice program. The 1949-born economist with a PhD at Harvard, and teaches at the University of California, Irvine. He is since the beginning of the Trumps tenure-in-chief of the newly created National trade Council in the White house. Navarro, of the critic as the author of books such as death by China or The upcoming China wars as a radical, China-it is known, has demanded from the beginning of punitive tariffs against Chinese imports, as a Central part of a policy of strength toward the middle Kingdom.
For the Chinese, a red cloth: Michael Pillsbury, the China at the same time admired and feared,speaks fluent Mandarin
Michael Pillsbury
Michael Pillsbury has been described by Donald Trump as a “leading authority” in the matter of China. The Director of the center for Chinese strategy at the conservative Think Tank Hudson Institute in Washington, since the term of office of US President Richard Nixon and US Secretary of state Henry Kissinger in various government functions with China. Under presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush senior, he was a consultant for the Pentagon. Before his Meeting with China’s state and party chief Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires, Donald Trump Pillsbury invited to the White house, with him and his economic staff on the discussions.
Pillsbury is fluent in Chinese and has written a number of books, most recently the bestselling The Hundred Year Marathon, in which he sketched the rise of the people’s Republic of China from its founding in 1949 up to the year 2049 and the resulting recommendations for US policy derived. The book with the subtitle: China’s secret strategy to replace America as the global superpower, has been translated into seven languages, and in Japan is one of the most widely read non-fiction books.
Ex-Goldman Sachs bankers and hedge Fund managers: US-Finance Minister Steven Mnuchin
Steven Mnuchin
The US Secretary of the Treasury is always in the negotiations – he is but as a former representative of the so-called “globalists” or “Wall Street group” in the US government is not a decisive influence attributed to it. At the latest since the resignation of Gary Cohn, who was like Mnuchin formerly in the investment Bank Goldman Sachs, are the advocates of free world trade, clearly on the Defensive. Cohn was entered in March 2018, due to the against China imposed punitive US duties as a Director of the National economic Council.
Top Economist Liu He: China’s Vice-Premier is considered the chief economic Advisor of state and party chief Xi Jinping
Liu He
He is the most prominent face of the Chinese trade delegation and is considered the closest economic policy Advisor of state and party chief Xi Jinping. The 1952-born Top Economist, studied at the people’s University in Beijing and at the U.S. institutions of higher education Seton Hall University and Harvard University. His main focus is on the macro-economy and the development of the industrial sector since the late 1980s. He was also with new economic theories and the possibilities of the IT sector. Liu has published hundreds of scientific papers, including about Chinese industrial policy and the rise of the Chinese economy. Liu He has participated on behalf of the Chinese government in numerous international conferences and is considered one of the most influential Economists in China.
He was with the state development planning Commission for industrial policy and worked with since the early 1990s, the five-year plans of the people’s Republic. He was commissions as a member of various high-level Economy, and in 2011 Deputy Director of the Development Research Center, a economic research group of the state Council.
Liu has been for many years a member of the Central Committee of the Communist party of China (CPC) and was there in a managerial position for Finance and economic policy, as well as national development and reform responsible. Since 2017, he is a member of the Politburo, the control center of Power in China. In 2018, he was appointed Vice-the Prime Minister, his official title is Deputy Prime Minister of the state Council.
Yi Gang (in the middle) is in addition to Liu He (li.) the most famous face of the Chinese trade delegation
Yi Gang
Yi Gang as Liu He, a prominent member of the Chinese trade delegation. The head of the Chinese Central Bank was born in 1958 and comes from Beijing. Yi studied at Peking University as well as at US universities in the Midwest, where he attended the University of Illinois in Economics and a PhD. Prior to his appointment as President of the People’s Bank of China (PBC), in March 2018, he was responsible for the management of Chinese foreign exchange reserves is responsible.
Since 2016, he represents China in the international conferences of the world monetary Fund and the world Bank. In addition, Yi is a familiar face at the world economic forum in Davos. He has published dozens of scientific articles in Chinese and English and is the author of numerous books. He is an alternate member of the Central Committee of the CCP.
Also, Ning Jizhe, chief of the National Bureau of statistics, is always there when China negotiated with the United States on trade issues
Ning Jizhe
Ning Jizhe, Born in 1965, native of Hefei in Anhui province. With 18 years of professional acting, he studied from 1982 at the Technical University of Hefei. He later studied in Beijing, where he in 1998, the Chinese people’s University PhD. Since 2007, he was in a managerial function for the research office of the state Council. In 2015, he was appointed Deputy Director of the National development and Reform Commission. Since 2016, and Ning Jizhe directs the national statistics Agency of China. He is an alternate member of the Central Committee of the CCP.
The majority of the biographical data on the Chinese representatives of the trade talks is based on information from the China Vitae, a database with information about approximately 5000 Chinese leaders, compiled by the Carnegie endowment for International peace.