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brooklynite

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Fri Aug 23, 2019, 07:59 AM Aug 2019

Trump's China bind [View all]

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Source: Axios

Sources close to President Trump tell Axios that the White House is in a China bind: A trade deal with China is "tough to improbable" in this deteriorating environment, with escalating security tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Why it matters: The biggest tool Trump has to pump the economy and the markets is a trade deal with China. But if anything, senior administration officials have turned harder against China in recent weeks.

This has less to do with trade than it does with national security, according to senior administration officials and sources briefed on the president’s thinking:



Read more: https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-china-trade-war-hong-kong-taiwan-security-3cbddfd7-1ed4-465b-91f0-40f9c3d63278.html

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