NEW YORK/WASHINGTON -- Just over a hundred days after the signing of their "phase one" trade deal at the White House, tensions between the U.S. and China have returned to the fore, with President Donald Trump and members of Congress voicing the need for reparations from Beijing over the pandemic.
Trump, who had initially lauded Chinese President Xi Jinping's handling of the new coronavirus, has ratcheted up his rhetoric against the Asian power of late, including the idea of retaliatory tariffs.