CHINA/ELECTION/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump signaled on Tuesday [12-3-19] that he was in no rush to end a long trade war with China, suggesting that he could wait until after the 2020 presidential election to strike a deal and sending stock prices tumbling…Mr. Trump’s comments rattled European stock markets and sent the Dow Jones industrial average down 400 points by 10 a.m. They cast more uncertainty on an agreement he said he had made weeks ago with China’s top trade envoy, Vice Premier Liu He. They announced in mid-October that they had reached a so-called Phase 1 trade agreement that would allow Chinese purchases of American agricultural goods to resume while the United States would cancel additional tariffs scheduled for Oct. 15.”
–Katie Rogers, Keith Bradsher and Ana Swanson, “Trump Warns Trade Talks With China May Last Past 2020 Election,” The New York Times online, December 3, 2019