How Japan may offer China road map towards a trade deal with the US
2019-01-15 09:58:06 source：South China Morning Post
January 15, 2019
China could use large purchases of US goods, promises of long-term dialogue on structural changes to its economy and active cooperation on infrastructure projects to fashion a short-term compromise that would satisfy the United States and avoid a further escalation of the trade war, an American specialist on Japan said on Monday.
“I’m moderately optimistic about the prospects for a China-US [trade agreement] by March 1, because the quantitative issues, the large-scale purchases and so on, are certainly possible to reach an accommodation,” said Kent Calder, a professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
Calder, a renowned Japan expert who served as a special adviser to the US ambassador to Japan in bilateral trade talks, said Beijing could learn from the past interactions between the US and Japan to de-escalate current tensions.
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