Washington — US President Donald Trump has little choice but to stick with his Phase 1 China trade deal despite his anger at Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic, new Hong Kong security rules, and dwindling hopes China can meet US goods purchase targets, people familiar with his administration’s deliberations say.
The US-China trade negotiations took more than two years, heaped tariffs on $370bn of Chinese products, whipsawed financial markets and dimmed global growth prospects well before the coronavirus outbreak crushed them...
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