China hawks watched with hope when Trump ascended to the presidency in 2016. He spoke on the campaign trail of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US and challenging China’s goal of global supremacy. He hired Peter Navarro, a strong critic of China, to run his trade council. Trump eventually hammered out a phase one trade deal with China in which the communist state agreed to purchase more US goods and curb its intellectual property theft.
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