China Update: Trade deal may offer platform for reviving relationship; Healey says ‘Clean Networks’ falls short

The U.S. and China both have incentives to keep their “Phase One” trade deal in place despite growing tensions in other areas including cybersecurity, and that pact could provide a pathway to a broader normalization of relations between the countries in the future, according to an analyst with deep experience on China policy.

At present, the “tempo of new U.S. restrictions and ferocity of negative rhetoric are increasing,” analyst Claire Reade wrote in an article titled “Trade may still...