After months of anticipation for high-level trade talks between delegations from China and the United States, who could have foreseen this week’s run of controversies, from the NBA and computer game giant Blizzard to bans on Chinese tech companies operating in Xinjiang?

The South China Morning Post’s political economy editors John Carter and Zhou Xin are back to break it all down for us, while Owen Churchill from the Post’s Washington bureau reports on what his sources are saying after China…