US and China Step Back From Shipping Probes as Tensions Ease

A shipbuilding facility along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu province.

Photographer: AFP/Getty Images

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The US and China suspended port fees on each other’s ships for one year and paused probes into maritime practices, in another sign of easing tensions between the world’s two largest economies.