Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Trade will be high on the agenda when Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet in Beijing next week. The world’s superpowers have been locked in an on-again, off-again trade war for nearly a decade. The Economist’s top economics editors assess who has the stronger hand going into the summit.

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