'I do think that there may be some flexibility from the U.S. on this issue,' says Clete Willems, who left the White House in the spring.
"If President Xi comes in and he's unequivocal and says the U.S. can't take any action on Huawei, I don't think that's going to be productive," said Willems, referring toLast month, the White House declared a national emergency over tech threats, leading to the government effectively blacklisting Huawei from conducting business with U.S. companies.
The Trump-Xi meeting comes as the world's two largest economies are entrenched in a nearly year-long trade war, with the both sides stepping up tariffs on one another in the past month and threatening additional punitive measures.WashingtonBeijing would have had to change some of its laws and Xi indicated that his negotiating team was unwilling to make those changes, Willems said in a "
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