Jun 21, 2019

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Friday called off a planned speech that had been initially cast as a sequel to a blistering broadside he delivered in October, in order to avert tensions ahead of a planned meeting on the U.S.-China trade war, a White House official said.

The decision came a week ahead of what could be pivotal talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Osaka, Japan about tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of each other’s goods.

“There is room for progress, and even if incremental, we didnt want to step on that potential,” a White House official said, speaking on condition of anonymity about why the speech was called off.

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