China Accepts Higher Tariff Truce

A Tsinghua-linked ex–intelligence analyst says Beijing could live with U.S. tariffs set above allied rates to clinch a near-term Trump–Xi understanding and avoid a broader rupture. That would shift tariffs from bargaining chips to semi-permanent guardrails in a managed rivalry, rather than something to be fully unwound. — If tariffs become the stable price of détente, firms and allies must plan around entrenched protectionism and a normalized U.S.–China partial decoupling.