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Chinese negotiators this week surprised their European Union counterparts with key market access concessions – following long months of intransigence — that could allow the two parties to reach an agreement on a historic investment deal by year’s end.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin called on the public to get the coronavirus vaccine, but is yet to receive it himself, he said.

22:00 - On Monday, Biden announced he intends to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of State. If confirmed, the appointment puts Blinken at the front lines of Biden’s China policy. “One of the things that this picking signifies is that Biden will almost certainly make good his promise to re-engage U.S. allies,” Isaac Stone Fish, a senior fellow at the Asia Society, said in a phone interview. “Trump has already seriously wounded China-U.S. relations. Although the Biden ... and his team are very familiar with China, they cannot avoid these problems,” said Shen Yamei, deputy director and associate research fellow at state-backed think tank China Institute of International Studies’ department for American studies.

16:24 - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ignored Joe Biden’s victory and claimed there will be a “smooth transition” to a second Trump term. Other top Trump administration officials, such as Vice President Mike Pence, have publicly insisted that the election is not over.

12:57 - The World Trade Organization ruled on Tuesday that additional tariffs imposed in 2018 by the United States on Chinese goods violated international trading rules, a blow to the Trump administration’s trade war against the world’s second largest economy. A three-person panel of WTO trade experts said Washington broke with global regulations in 2018 when it slapped more than $200 billion in levies on a slew of Chinese goods. Since March 2018, the United States has imposed tariffs on $400 billion in Chinese exports.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed a slew of issues lingering over the United States and China, ranging from strained trade relations to national security threats to the upcoming presidential election. Pompeo said the Trump administration is open to talks with Beijing. Yet he added that the U.S. would maintain its tough stance.

18:53 - President Donald Trump was abruptly evacuated from a press briefing on coronavirus on Monday evening just minutes after he began speaking following a shooting outside of the White House. “There was an actual shooting, and somebody has been taken to the hospital. I don’t know the condition of the person,” Trump said after he returned to the White House briefing room shortly afterward. “It was the suspect that was shot,” Trump added. He said that no one else was injured, but that it was his understanding that the suspect had been armed.

The U.S. economy suffered its worst period ever in the second quarter, with GDP falling a historic 32.9%. Neither the Great Depression nor the Great Recession nor any other slump over the past two centuries have ever caused such a sharp drain on the economy

14/07 - 18:38 - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he signed legislation to impose sanctions on China in response to its interference with Hong Kong’s autonomy. Trump also said in the White House Rose Garden that he signed an executive order ending the preferential treatment that Hong Kong has long enjoyed. The Trump administration has previously blamed China for the unfolding health crisis caused by the coronavirus, and it has criticized Beijing for its illegal territorial claims in the South China Sea.