A Chinese scholar has urged negotiations as soon as possible between China and the United States as tension over trade between the two largest economies worsened in recent days, with both sides ratcheting up the stakes.
Madam Chen Fengying, former director of the Institute of World Economy at government think-tank China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said each side needs to compromise and settle for the "second-best" option in order to resolve their differences.
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