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“Jaw, jaw is better than war, war,” as Harold Macmillan once remarked. And after two days of talking in London, the US and China have managed to patch up their trade conflict truce.
“The two sides have, in principle, reached a framework for implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state during the phone call on June 5th and the consensus reached at the Geneva meeting.” Continue reading...