Trump-Xi deal buys time but doesn't solve deep US-China differences over trade
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Despite inflated White House claims of success, President Donald Trump's handshake deal here with Chinese leader Xi Jinping was less an end to the trade war than a tenuous truce that buys time for more negotiations but doesn't begin to resolve deep-seated differences on trade and economic philosophy.
Although the two leaders ratcheted down the acrimonious tone that has characterized months of tit-for-tat tariffs between Washington and Beijing, what they did mostly was kick the can down the road in the deal they forged over a working dinner Saturday night.
That leaves the hard work ahead to aides - and the prospect of a lasting resolution on long-standing disputes as murky
