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Trump Team Draws on ‘Managed Trade’ Playbook With New Idea for China

The world’s two biggest economies are considering a new mechanism to oversee their commercial ties.
Xi Jinping and Donald TrumpPhotographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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I’m Chris Anstey, an economics editor in Boston. Today we’re looking at what we learned from the latest US-China trade talks. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

Asked by Bloomberg in September about a label for his by-then-regular negotiating sessions with China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said there was no name. He just called them “trade talks.”