As New Cold War Looms, China Struggles to Grasp Trump's End Game
- Beijing weighs measures to save Huawei, whips up nationalism
- ‘At the end of the day this is too big a relationship to fail’
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When Donald Trump first took office in 2017, officials in Beijing saw a pragmatic businessman: All that tough campaign talk, they argued, was merely Art-of-the-Deal negotiating tactics rather than deeply held beliefs.