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Angus Campbell, Australian ambassador to Belgium and NATO

As President Trump prepares to meet with Xi Jinping, a trade war that once threatened to freeze commerce between the two countries has given way to an uneasy truce.

T HE CHANCES of a trade war between the European Union and China are far higher than most Europeans realise. In the corridors of Brussels, insiders have theories to explain this c

Over a year ago, President Trump started imposing tariffs on China as part of “Liberation Day”. There was a back-and-forth escalation and at one point the tariffs on China peaked at 145%. A truce was eventually declared and the temperature on the tariff war cooled,

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The Iran war, Taiwan, trade, tariffs and AI could all feature in Donald Trump's first visit to Beijing in nearly nine years. Follow live.

President Donald Trump's trade war with Beijing has sent U.S.-China trade into a freefall and forced companies on both sides of the Pacific to regroup.

President Donald Trump ended his two-day summit with China’s top leader and said the two countries would be “doing a lot of trade.” Chinese officials said little.