{"id":32018,"date":"2025-11-02T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32018"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:59:20","slug":"china-us-relations-somewhere-between-a-ceasefire-and-a-truce-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32018","title":{"rendered":"China-US relations: \u2018Somewhere between a ceasefire and a truce\u2019 | Trade War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>China expert Evan Medeiros discusses US-China relations going back before Trump\u2019s \u2018Liberation Day\u2019 tariffs and trade wars.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and China have declared a truce in the trade war launched by US President Donald Trump in April, argues Evan Medeiros, former US National Security Council director for China.<\/p>\n<p>Medeiros tells host Steve Clemons that the deal reached between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump resolves the urgent trade issues between the two sides \u2013 tariff rates, soya beans and rare earth minerals \u2013 but China \u201cremains committed to ensuring that Russia doesn\u2019t lose\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The US has more than 200,000 soldiers surrounding China, Medeiros adds, but Washington knows that \u201cnobody wants to choose between the US and China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 2 Nov 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">2 Nov 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China expert Evan Medeiros discusses US-China relations going back before Trump\u2019s \u2018Liberation Day\u2019 tariffs and trade wars. The United States and China have declared a truce in the trade war launched by US President Donald Trump in April, argues Evan Medeiros, former US National Security Council director for China. Medeiros tells host Steve Clemons that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1893,18553,12176,430,8834,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-32018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-chinaus","10":"tag-relations","11":"tag-trade","12":"tag-truce","13":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}