If China-U.S. Ties Degrade, Everybody Loses
China's President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Beijing on November 9, 2017.
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Things are getting worse. That’s a conclusion one might have reasonably reached after reading this week’s U.S.-China headlines.
First, there was Hong Kong, a matter Beijing has warned Washington to stay clear of. Protesters last weekend battled police, vandalized shops and paralyzed swaths of the Asia financial center. Then President Donald Trump tied outcomes in Hong Kong to trade.