China, US Reach Multiple Consensus Points in 8th Round of Trade Talks

The standout detail is not the tariff language but the AI dialogue, which folds an emerging technology file into a trade mechanism that until now handled conventional goods and investment. That shift matters for crypto and RWA markets because AI compute and data-center buildouts are increasingly financed and tokenized at the cross-border level, and any bilateral channel touching them can shape how such flows are treated. The open question is whether these councils and dialogues produce concrete deliverables or remain consultative.