White House trade adviser Peter Navarro talked down speculations that China’s trade delegation to travelling to the US to sign the trade deal this week. He told Fox on Monday, “never believe reports on anonymous sources”. Instead, people should get the news from President Donald Trump or trade representative Robert Lighthizer.
Though, he noted that “we’ll probably have a signing on that within the next week or so – we’re just waiting for the translation”. “Basically you need to get it translated into the Chinese and double-checked so both versions match,” he added.
The deal would be made public “as quickly as possible”. And, that would be a “good start” on forced technology transfers, with details on IP protection, and “some good language” on currency manipulations”.
