Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

Will the One-Year Trade Truce Actually Last a Year?

Even though Trump gave his meeting with Xi a 12 out of 10, don’t hold your breath.

November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

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Some Korean American friends once invited me to their son’s first birthday party, which I found odd, because who wants to go to a first birthday party? Not even one-year-olds, if my experience is typical.