Xi Under Pressure for Agreement With US at G-20 Meeting, Experts Say

China experts say that the Trump administration’s trade policy has put China’s communist leadership under immense pressure to give in to some demands.
Xi Under Pressure for Agreement With US at G-20 Meeting, Experts Say
An employee watches over cranes as he talks on his interphone at a port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province on November 8, 2018. STR/AFP/Getty Images
Nicole Hao
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China experts say that in the face of crippling tariffs and other restrictions that the Trump administration has imposed on Beijing, its communist leadership is under immense pressure to give in to some demands.

Even so, a former professor at a Beijing university, who now lives in Washington, cited a high-ranking Chinese official as saying that Chinese leader Xi Jinping won’t back down in the trade war.

Nicole Hao
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Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.
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