US-China trade deal would be tricky and tenuous

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : HONG KONG, Aug 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have an interest coming to the negotiating table.
56% : pleased Trump
48% : Last week, Jens Eskelund, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, noted, opens new tab: "China faces a choice between continuing Made in China 2025-style policies or taking a more targeted and sustainable approach to technological self-reliance that minimises negative externalities.
45% : Trump has expressed optimism that he can reach an arrangement with China that would "substantially" cut levies.
44% : Goods imports directly from the People's Republic were nearly a fifth lower last year than in 2018, when Trump launched his first tariff assault.
43% : Trump paused U.S. tariffs on those goods only to announce an investigation into the whole supply chain and semiconductor sector on national security grounds.
40% : " In the near term, Trump may simply want to use tariffs as a tool to project dominance over Beijing.
39% : As the yard widens and Trump builds an insurmountable fence, the room for co-operation is shrinking.
32% : In effect, Trump is rapidly expanding the Biden administration's "small yard, high fence" policy where the U.S. built barriers around specific high-tech industries that could advance the Chinese military, while seeking cooperation with the People's Republic on other issues like climate change.
31% : For a long time, Trump seems to have viewed the existence of a goods deficit as tantamount to China taking wealth from the United States.
16% : Trump signed an order aimed at keeping Huawei out of digital wireless networks in 2019, while Democrat President Joe Biden unveiled sweeping U.S. export restrictions on semiconductors in 2022 and banned the sale of Chinese electric vehicles.

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