Analysis: Xi Jinping's basketball buddy at center of US trade talks

That knowledge of languages is important is repeated daily by teachers, parents and human resource leaders.But it may not be so important.At least not for He Lifeng (China, 1955), the second Deputy Prime Minister and chief economic negotiator of the Chinese government, who has just agreed with the United States a 90-day tariff truce, despite having – according to the media – a rather limited command of English.Continue readingA politician reques…

Analysis: Xi Jinping's basketball buddy at center of US trade talks

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bur