U.S. and Chinese officials began talks in Madrid on Sunday on their strained trade ties, a looming divestiture deadline for Chinese short video app TikTok and Washington's demands that its allies place tariffs on China over its purchases of Russian oil.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is traveling to Madrid this weekend for trade talks with Chinese counterparts.

US-China trade talks in Spain intensify as TikTok ban deadline nears, raising stakes for global markets and diplomacy.

This mark the fourth time in four months that the delegations have met in European cities to try to keep a fractured U.S.-China trade relationship from collapsing under Trump's tariffs.

A framework deal has been reached between China and the U.S. for the ownership of popular social video platform TikTok, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after weekend trade talks in Spain. Bessent said in a press conference after the latest round of trade talks between the world's two largest economies concluded in Madrid that U.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng arrive in Spain for trade talks:: September 14, 2025:: The talks mark the fourth time in four months that the U.S. and China have met in European cities:: The agenda includes the looming divestiture deadline for Chinese video app TikTokThe delegations last met in Stockholm in July where they agreed in principle to extend for 90 days a trade truce that sharply reduced triple-digit retaliatory tariffs on both sides and restarted the flow of rare-earth minerals from China to the United States.