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Trump Winning Trade War With China-Time For A Deal

President Trump has put himself in a strong position to get the right trade deal from China, and he should take it.
China's President Xi Jinping (R) and US President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017.
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China was supposed to have the political strength and economic heft to win a trade war with the U.S. But President Donald Trump’s challenge to this conventional wisdom reveals a surprising vulnerability in China’s economics and politics.

China’s economic ascent has depended on a willingness among world leaders to look past—and, when necessary, explain away—its unsavory aspects, primarily intellectual property theft, state subsidies of business and barriers to foreign competitors. Trump has shown no such willingness. He has made

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