Mnuchin: China, U.S. trade talks in Beijing 'constructive'

BEIJING -- Chinese and U.S. negotiators adjourned trade talks in Beijing on Friday with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin saying they had been "constructive." Neither side gave any details on whether the talks made progress on issues preventing them from reaching an agreement to end a wide-ranging dispute over technology and industrial policy between the world's two biggest economies. Mnuchin said in a tweet Friday that he and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer had "concluded const