When President Donald Trump in 2020 signed a trade deal with China after years of escalatory tariffs, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden blasted the agreement. ‘China is the big winner of Trump’s “phase-one” trade deal with Beijing,’ Biden said after the agreement was finalized.
He wasn’t alone. Many trade experts at the time believed the purchasing targets Beijing was required to meet were highly unrealistic.
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