March 8, 2019

After last week’s fumbled nuclear summit in Vietnam, Beijing is worried President Donald Trump might walk away from the negotiating table.

Nuclear talks between Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un were cut short after the two sides failed to reach an agreement. The collapse of the Hanoi summit came as a surprise as many experts had predicted that both leaders would try to reach a deal on smaller items.

That diplomatic snafu led Chinese officials to grow worried Trump could do the same in trade talks, a senior administration official told CNBC on Friday.

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