After talking tough during campaign, Trump appears to ease up on China at start of presidency

On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods and threatened to renew the trade war with China that he launched during his first term. But now that he’s back in the White House, Trump appears to be seeking a more nuanced relationship with the country that both Republicans and Democrats have come to see as the gravest foreign policy challenge to the U.S. Trump seems to be showing restraint and bowing to a more complicated reality than he described while running for office.