China focuses more on progress, less on a pending US trade deal
Two parties have ‘an honest, highly efficient, and constructive discussion’ in economic and trade issues
12 October 2019 - 09:25
Washington — US officials on Friday promised a "Phase 1" deal with China on a host of conflicts from intellectual property to currency was imminent, but China's official state-owned news organization Xinhua struck a more cautious tone.
"We've come to a deal pretty much subject to getting it written," US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House after two days of high-level trade talks in Washington, with China's top negotiator Vice Premier Liu He sitting in the room...
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