Global stock markets may continue to gyrate on every dodge and parry in trade talks between the United States and China, but the unacknowledged reality is that a deal no longer matters much.
Sure, it would be better to have one than not. Yet the relationship between these two powers has changed so much since negotiations began a year ago that they have become a sideshow in a greater confrontation that no trade pact can resolve.
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