WASHINGTON—President Trump began reconsidering his campaign promise to label China a currency manipulator in his very first meeting with senior Treasury Department officials, according to a new book from a former White House official. In the book, “Team of Vipers,” scheduled to be published next week, Mr. Trump reacts with a mix of interest and surprise when a senior aide to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tells him what scores of fact-checkers had warned of the year before: that China wasn’t manipulating its currency. “Really?”...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 22, 2019 21:00 UTC