Economics
Trump Team Works to Insulate China Talks From Huawei Case
- Lighthizer declares March 1 a ‘hard deadline’ for trade truce
- U.S. ambassador Branstad summoned for Beijing tongue-lashing
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President Donald Trump’s trade team sought to insulate talks with China from a growing dispute over the U.S. pursuit of a Huawei executive on Sunday, but struggled to address financial markets’ fears that a fragile truce with Beijing was at risk.
The rush of televised interviews with Trump aides ahead of the opening of markets in Asia came amid signs that the dispute over the Dec. 1 arrest in Canada of Huawei Technologies Co. Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was continuing to escalate.