Add InterestAmerican officials are due in Beijing Monday for talks aimed at easing the U.S.-China trade battle that threatens to hobble global economic growth. China's leaders have offered to narrow its politically sensitive trade surplus with the United States by purchasing more soybeans, natural gas and other American exports. Chinese economic growth fell to a post-global crisis low of 6.5 percent in the quarter ending in September. The dispute has rattled companies and financial markets that worry it will drag on global economic growth that is showing signs of declining. Some manufacturers that serve the United States have shifted production to other countries.

Source: ABC News January 04, 2019 06:23 UTC