This from Axios on Trump administration planning even more pressure on China

  • broadside will be "administration-wide": White House senior officials (from the National Security Council), Treasury, Commerce, Defense
  • White House plans to unveil new information about China's hostile actions against America
  • China "malign activity" in cyberattacks, election interference and industrial warfare (e.g., intellectual property theft)

Axios citing two unnamed sources - link here …. and more follows below

Axios have even more a little later, this report:

  • President Trump plans to use his chairing of the UN Security Council this week to address a counter-narcotics summit focused on opioids … Much of the illegal opioids ravaging American streets are coming from factories in China

AUD has has has begun to drift a little lower again after retracing its earlier 'gap':

This AUD/JPY: