If the U.S. and China Make a Trade Deal, Then What?

The U.S.-China trade war has always been about more than just trade.

Among other issues, it represents a move towards the decoupling of the two economies and “the culmination of decades of pent-up frustration within the United States over China’s failure to make good on the promise of its 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO),” the analyst Elizabeth Economy writes in a recent essay.