Economists and trade experts largely call the trade war a victory for Beijing

A truce in the trade war with China was announced by US officials with a lot of fanfare, but economists and trade experts largely call it a victory for Beijing.

Amid a conflict that lasted for nearly two years, with several fumbled efforts to resolve it, the US decided to immediately cancel proposed tariffs and rollback other tariffs without China's equal agreement to remove tariffs it levied on the US.

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