BANFF, May 22 — Finance leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised democracies sought to downplay disputes over United States (US) President Donald Trump's tariffs and find some common ground to keep the forum viable as they met in the Canadian Rocky Mountains on Wednesday.

GENEVA, May 10 — Chinese Vice Premier He Lipeng began talks with United States (US) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent early on Saturday in Geneva in a tentative first step towards defusing a trade war disrupting the global economy.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, May 7 — United States (US) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer will meet China's economic tsar He Lifeng in Switzerland this weekend for talks that could be the first step toward resolving a trade war disrupting the global economy.