President Trump’s complicated, risky negotiations with China

The history of U.S. trade with China in the post-World War II era is a story of negotiations complicated by seemingly unrelated but critically important issues.
The Cold War, North Korea’s nuclear program, Iran’s ambitions, the 2008 financial crisis and concerns over global warming all have created pressure at different times and during different trade talks, so it is perhaps unfair to criticize the decisions of U.S. leaders to let China “kill us,” in the words of Preside