Outside Voices: Former USTR official grades phase-one China deal

The biggest success of the phase-one trade agreement with China may ironically lie in achieving incremental reform in China that past administrations sought but the Trump administration pooh-poohed, a former assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China affairs argues. “If you look at the Phase One deal through the lens of the ‘incremental progress’ model, ironically, it seems like a bonanza event,” wrote Claire Reade , now a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It offers the...