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Hi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — a succinct snapshot of what I’m seeing and hearing from local businesses.
Now that the Trump-Xi summit has helped keep tariffs in check, Chinese companies and U.S. representatives alike are making the most of an extended truce to get some deals going. But is that enough to overcome data security and branding hurdles?
For businesses navigating U.S.-China tensions, “the worst is over,” Zou Ping, co-founder of AI Speech, told me in Suzhou last week.
It was just a few days after he’d returned from the U.S., one of the company’s key growth markets as it pushes sales of high-end microphones, speakers and digital note-taking tablets.
