There was a sigh of relief from global markets when the leaders of China and the U.S. met on the side-lines of the G20 summit to agree upon a temporary truce in their trade war. However, despite the good news, the existing 10 percent tariff on U.S. LNG has remained unchanged. According to White House Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, China had agreed to immediately start importing more U.S. agricultural, energy, industry, and other products. The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada, however, is set to be the first test of this new truce. Playing hardball China was easily the most maligned country during Trump’s presidential campaign, but most analysts expected him to moderate his tone once he was in office. A year after his election, President Trump landed in Beijing for an official state-visit that appeared from the outside to have been a great success. The expectation from […]