Trump Must Meet Xi to Stop Trade War, Top House Republican Says
- No ‘serious’ U.S.-China trade talks happening now, Brady says
- Brady is a top Republican in the U.S. House on trade matters
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President Donald Trump faced unusually blunt criticism from within his own party, as one of the U.S. House’s top lawmakers urged him to restart negotiations to stop a costly trade war with China.
Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican who heads the powerful Ways and Means Committee, called on Trump to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and hash out an agreement to settle their trade differences. Brady warned that further escalation, such as the administration’s latest move to levy tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, risked a multiyear fight that “that engulfs more and more of the globe.”