A Mysterious Account in China Seems to Have an Inside Track on Trade Talks

  • Account was a lone voice commenting on Trump’s trade tweet
  • Observers start to follow it to read tea leaves of trade fight
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For many China observers, one question has popped up since a pair of President Donald Trump’s tweets roiled Chinese stocks this week: Who or what is Taoran Notes?

As most of China’s media fell into collective silence Monday following Trump’s threat to escalate the trade war, Taoran Notes, a once obscure account on Tencent Holdings’ WeChat platform, somehow escaped the intensified censorship. It became one of the few voices offering an opinion on China’s negotiation strategy.