Seeking breakthrough in trade talks, China sends a feisty bureaucrat to US

Wang is a key official leading China's trade talks worldwide and he led an advance team to Washington in May

China’s man tasked with finding a breakthrough in trade talks with the US is a veteran trade bureaucrat and fluent English speaker who’s called America a “trade bully.”

Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen, 52, will lead a delegation of Chinese officials to Washington later this month, where he will meet US officials led by Undersecretary for International Affairs David Malpass of the Treasury Department. The two men are challenged with finding a way to end an escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies after negotiations broke down two months ago.