CPIR Affiliate Katheryn Russ featured on BBC News China’s Xi Jinping in US for talks with President Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are to
meet on Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay area. The encounter
will be only their second face-to-face meeting during the Biden
presidency. Trade, technology, the Israel-Gaza war and Taiwan are
among the issues likely to be on the agenda. Relations between
the two countries deteriorated earlier this year.
Katheryn Russ has expertise in open-economy macroeconomics and
international trade policy. She is a faculty research associate
in the National Bureau of Economic Research International Trade
and Investment Group and Co-Organizer of the International Trade
and Macroeconomics Working Group. She is a Non-Resident Senior
Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and
served as Senior Economist for International Trade and Finance
for the White House Council of Economic Advisors 2015-16.
