How Trump Can Improve the Messy U.S.-Chinese Economic Relationship

[McFurd]

NY Times - 4/6/2017 - Neil Irwin - The United States and China are locked in a mutually dependent, frequently dysfunctional economic partnership. The world’s biggest and second-biggest economies are like a married couple that complain about each other constantly yet can’t even contemplate a divorce.The marriage enters a new phase Thursday, as President Xi Jinping of China visits for two days of meetings at the Florida estate of a president who made China a punching bag on the campaign trail.The question is whether President Trump can turn his bellicose language into concrete gains for American companies and workers. A look at the economics of the relationship between the nations, and conversations with former officials with battle scars from past negotiations, shows a path for getting a better deal. Read more @ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/upsh ... .html?_r=0