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U.S. may want a ‘divorce,’ not a deal with China, analysts and business officials warn

October 19, 2018 at 4:07 PM
The U.S. may be using tariffs on Chinese goods as a way to pursue broader disengagement with Beijing, rather than as leverage to make a deal solely on trade, analysts and U.S. businesses said this week, dimming hopes of a near-term resolution to the trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies. To the extent that the dispute is an economic or a trade debate, “We could get to yes,” Craig Allen, the president of the U.S.-China Business Council said...


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