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President Donald Trump is touting this week’s trade agreement with China as the latest triumph of his dealmaking acumen.

“Some, they want to call it ‘caving’ or ‘giving in’ or something like that,” said Mark DiPlacido, policy advisor at American Compass, a think tank that embraces economic populism. “But they’re not comparing it to the baseline of where things were at at the beginning of the year.”

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