With medical supplies in dangerously short supply, Trump also needs China, which produces half of the imported masks in the United States.
The United States and China have reached a truce in a vitriolic feud over the coronavirus pandemic, with the two powers each seeing at least a tactical interest in cooling down.
Beijing infuriated the United States last month when a foreign ministry spokesman spread a conspiracy theory that US troops brought the virus to Wuhan. But with medical supplies in dangerously short supply, Trump also needs China, which produces half of the imported masks in the United States. She doubted that the newfound tone would improve the rest of the relationship, which was already tense before the pandemic.
Paal, a former Asia adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, said that China also had an eye on US elections in November.
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