As we enter 2020, we need to brace ourselves for another year of trade tensions. The United States and China are enjoying a truce, but the chances are this will be temporary.
Any trade disputes between the two - and there is a long list - will need to be sorted out bilaterally, because the body that normally handles such disputes, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has been marginalised, which is another problem.
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