"There are no winners" in the US-China deal

"There are no winners" in the US-China deal

• Oct 30, 2025, 3:57 PM

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The US-China deal has prompted questions as to what each country has managed - or not - to get from the other, with the world's two biggest economy promising a year-long trade truce. But in truth "there are no winners" in the deal Peter Gries, Lee Kai Hung Chair & founding Director of the Manchester China Institute, tells Oliver Farry on Daybreak.

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