China-US Trade Talks Open in New York; Summit Set for Sept 24

The choice of a bank headquarters as the venue, and the fact that talks are framed around export controls, rare earths and a fixed tariff deadline, suggests both sides are negotiating from defined leverage rather than seeking a broad reset. For crypto and RWA markets, the relevant transmission is indirect: any movement on AI export controls or critical-minerals supply chains would reshape the cost and availability of the compute and hardware that tokenization and on-chain infrastructure depend on. Whether the tariff truce is extended before it lapses is the open question, and the Sept 24 summit is the next visible checkpoint.