Trump ‘Prepared to Walk’ Away From China Trade Deal if Terms are Not Good Enough

Trump ‘Prepared to Walk’ Away From China Trade Deal if Terms are Not Good Enough
President Donald Trump holds a news conference after his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the JW Marriott hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam on Feb. 28, 2019. Leah Millis/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Feb. 28 said he could walk away from a trade deal with China if it were not good enough, even as his economic advisers touted “fantastic” progress toward an agreement to end a dispute with the Asian country.

The United States and China have imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of each others’ goods.