There is too much “fraternising with the enemy” for US–China economic ties and global technology ecosystems to be disentangled into neat geopolitical coalitions.

Think of the pact as a break in hostilities while both sides take care of short-term domestic interests.

The preliminary trade deal between the United States and China is the first step in correcting an imbalance of more than $300 billion in commerce between the world's two economic superpowers.

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign executive orders on Friday aimed at identifying abuses that are causing massive U.S. trade deficits and clamping down on non-payment of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports, his top trade officials said.

The “phase one” US-China trade deal will nearly double US exports to China over the next two years and is “totally done” despite the need for translation and revisions to its text, US trade representative Robert Lighthizer said on Sunday.

President Trump’s initial retreat from his trade-war threats has handed hard-liners in China a victory. A longer, pricklier trade war and stiff Chinese resistance to economic reforms could result.

China and the US have reached an initial deal to resolve a bruising trade war between the two countries, according to statements from both sides.

The White House has reached a “deal in principle” with Beijing to resolve the 17-month US-China trade war, according to a source briefed on the trade talks.

US and Chinese officials are working on a deal to postpone a round of tariffs set to hit Chinese imports in five days, according to a media report on Tuesday (Dec 10).

Vietnam is under rising US pressure to stop transshipment of tariff-dodging China-made goods