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In China–US Trade Dispute, Any Concession Is a Loss for Beijing

In China–US Trade Dispute, Any Concession Is a Loss for Beijing
Chinese leader Xi Jinping greets U.S. President Donald Trump at a welcoming ceremony on Nov. 9, 2017 in Beijing. Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images
He Qinglian
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In late August, a Chinese trade delegation, led by China’s Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen, headed to the United States for a fourth round of negotiations.
It was generally expected that there wouldn’t be any meaningful results. The Chinese stance is presented in the article “A Long-Term View of China’s Historical Changes and the Current Sino–U.S. Confrontation—a Record of Dialogue With the Delegation of U.S. Congressional Aides” (hereafter referred to as “Dialogue Record”).
He Qinglian
He Qinglian
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He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.