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Senators slam Trump’s ‘weak’ China deal after Seoul meeting

Trump officials hailed the Seoul meeting as a “step toward stability” and pointed to China’s verbal commitment to rein in fentanyl exports and ease rare-earth restrictions as signs of good faith.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Senator Chris Coons of Delaware and Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado. / Wikipedia

President Donald Trump’s high-profile meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seoul drew sharp criticism from leading Senate Democrats, who accused Trump of offering concessions that left the United States no better off — and perhaps weaker — in its economic and strategic contest with Beijing.

“Art of the Deal this was not,” said Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “President Trump’s much-heralded meeting with President Xi appears to have merely brought us a few steps closer to where we started at the beginning of this costly trade war, with little else to show for it and significant harm to American workers, businesses and farmers along the way.”

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