Wendy Cutler says conflicting considerations are weighing on the chief negotiators from the US and China. Photo: Handout

Trade war: US-China deal deadline ‘likely to be missed’, former US trade negotiator Wendy Cutler says

‘The last mile is always the most difficult’, former official tells China Conference USA
Both sides have said they are close to an agreement, but each needs to ‘show they got something’, she says

Topic | US-China trade war

Robert Delaney in Washington

Published: 10:08am, 11 Dec, 2019

Updated: 10:44am, 12 Dec, 2019

Wendy Cutler says conflicting considerations are weighing on the chief negotiators from the US and China. Photo: Handout

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Robert Delaney

Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.