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