Highlights MOU announced in 2017 still awaits action Ongoing US-China trade war complicates investment decisions Houston — West Virginia officials are still hopeful that China Energy will eventually make good on its promise of investing $84 billion in the state’s natural gas and petrochemical industries, despite the ongoing US-China trade dispute, the state’s secretary of commerce said Monday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Following a visit to Beijing by a group of West Virginia officials last month, “we understand what China Energy is about,” Secretary Ed Gaunch said in an interview Monday. “From my standpoint, we’ve moved the relationship further ahead.” This relationship concerns a memorandum of understanding that China Energy had signed in November 2017, during a visit by President Trump to Beijing in the early days of his administration. In that MOU, China Energy had said it hoped to invest […]