The Trump administration on Monday rebuked China for making statements in recent weeks that it said misrepresented why trade talks between the two nations reached an impasse. Chinese officials, in public remarks and in a policy paper issued over the weekend, have chosen “to pursue a blame game misrepresenting the nature and history of trade negotiations between the two countries,” said the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Treasury Department in a joint statement. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 03, 2019 23:37 UTC