Trade talks; RMB; Family planning; Naughty New Zealand; Roderick MacFarquhar
It is a rainy Tuesday here in DC and a bit of a slow news day so there is not much commentary up top from me.
There is a growing expectation that the US-China trade talks will lead to at least a ceasefire and a framework deal to keep discussing (aka punting on) the deeper structural issues. Are we getting lulled into false confidence, or has President Tr…