This week, the world waited while trade negotiators from China and the United States huddled in Beijing for high-level talks over the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries. In 2018, the US under President Donald Trump put tariffs on many Chinese exports to the US and China retaliated with protectionist measures aimed at the US. The trade dispute weighed on many asset classes, and commodities were no exception.
Since China exports more to the US than vice versa, the impact on the Chinese economy and their domestic stock market has been more significant than