Peter Navarro, director of the National Trade Council, in Washington this month. Photo: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg

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Topic | US-China relations

Robert Delaney in Washington

Published: 2:16am, 23 Oct, 2019

Updated: 11:26pm, 23 Oct, 2019

Peter Navarro, director of the National Trade Council, in Washington this month. Photo: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg

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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.