The president’s bullish advisers may be taking a hard line,but the chances of a deal are better than they lookDuring Donald Trump’s campaign to be president, he regularly cited China’s export subsidies as “evil”, and in his manifesto he pledged to “crop a better deal with China that helps American businesses and workers compete”.
The president turned decades of musings into a policy mission after his son-in-law,Jared Kushner, handed him a book by the academics Peter Navarro and Greg Autry – Death by China – which set out to account for how China manipulated the global trade system for its own ends.
The conciliatory language and the measured response from Beijing is reassuringContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com