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A lot of confusion in China on U.S. motives, says AmCham China’s Stratford

By Bloomberg
01 September 2019   |   3:51 pm
Timothy Stratford, chairman at AmCham China and managing partner at Covington & Burling, discusses the ratcheting up of tensions between the U.S. and China and what it means for the trade talks and U.S. companies doing business in China.

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