The current U.S.-China trade talks have a historical parallel, with an odd role reversal. On June 1, 1990, seven months after the Berlin Wall fell, Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met at the White House to sign an agreement normalizing trade relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The agreement capped a year of intense negotiations, during which Ambassador Julius Katz, a legendary trade diplomat, led the U.S. delegation, and I served as his legal counsel. Katz had negotiated with the Soviets in the 1970s...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 13, 2018 17:51 UTC