Trade war’s peak anxiety


Trump attending a bilateral meeting with Xi during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019. The US president hopes they will meet again soon. — Reuters

IN today’s rocky United States-China relations, uncertainty lingers even if rising tension seems to have paused.

This relates to personalities as much as to their different systems. Misunderstanding the personas and the politics has caused considerable confusion.

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