The US made the global trade rules it constantly claims are unfair
2017-10-02 10:07:14 source:South China Morning Post
October 1, 2017
If trade conflict erupts between China and the United States in the coming year, it will certainly not be for want of both sides trying to keep the peace.
Beyond the working-level shuttle diplomacy that has been humming since Xi Jinping’s April summit discussion with Donald Trump at his Mar a Lago resort, visits to Beijing over the past week by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have lifted dialogue to the highest level. Exchanges seem likely to intensify through the coming month to a crescendo in November when Trump and Xi might actually meet three times – at the APEC Leaders’ meeting in Da Nang in Vietnam; at the Asean leaders’ 50th anniversary celebrations in Manila; and bilaterally in Beijing.
If the differences and tensions between China and the US were not so obvious and fraught, one could be forgiven for thinking there was some serious passion at work.
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