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The USTR adviser is the president's pick to succeed C.J. Mahoney, who has in turn been tapped for a State Department role.

"He praised the Chinese government even as the virus was coming to our shores because he was so afraid that they’d walk away from his trade deal.”

“I think moving backward from the phase-one trade deal would be a bad thing.”

The resolution calls on USTR to “lead efforts to work with WTO members to pursue reforms.”

Asked in an interview about a purported phase-two deal if he wins re-election, the president said “I will sort of hold that answer in abeyance.”

The Commerce Department will no longer issue export license exceptions for products headed to Hong Kong as the U.S. works to “eliminate differential treatment” that Hong Kong has long been afforded by the U.S., the agency announced on Monday.

The White House this week published a long-overdue strategy document outlining a “whole-of-government” approach to counter a variety of Chinese policies, including trade and economic practices that the president has often criticized.

China should be given leeway on purchasing targets due to the pandemic-related economic downturn, the Senate Finance Committee chairman said.

With the relationship between Washington, DC, and Beijing as fraught as it has been in a generation, the Trump administration runs the risk of making a bad situation worse if the president opts to terminate the U.S.-China phase-one agreement, China analysts tell Inside U.S. Trade.