Following the recent trade truce, the U.S. and China are in a rush to find ways to ease the economic hold they have over each other.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a bilateral meeting, October 30, 2025, in Busan, South Korea. Credit: The White House via Flickr
The United States-China relationship has become a fight over chokepoints. That has become more apparent than ever over the last month, as new restrictions imposed by Beijing on rare earths shipments forced Washington to delay a major export control expansion — part of a one-year trade truce.
An excerpt from a fact sheet on the U.S.-China deal, November 1, 2025. Credit: White House
The deal, agreed by Xi Jinping and Donald Trump at their meeting in South Korea, has bought both co
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