China Signals Softening on Trade

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BY BRIAN SPEGELE IN BEIJING AND THOMAS CATAN IN WASHINGTON
China signaled a possible softening on a key point of contention with the U.S. ahead of a meeting between the two countries’ presidents, suggesting it might be willing to join U.S.-led talks to strike an Asia-Pacific free-trade agreement.
Critics in China, including in the official press and academics in policy circles, have long viewed talks for what is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership with suspicion, seeing it as one more way for Washington to seek to contain China’s influence by forming tighter bonds with its neighbors.
But this past week a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Commerce said that China …
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