US and China slash tariffs
Trump's trade chief Jamieson Greer (who gave his first European interview to Unherd last week) said yesterday it had been a 'very constructive two days'. He added: 'It's important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought.
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