President Trump will be facing a difficult task when he travels to China later this year to start “phase two” of trade negotiations with Beijing.

The talks are expected to cover digital trade, China’s business subsidies, and its hacking of U.S. companies, according to White House officials — all of which issues are so tricky that they got excluded from the first round of talks.

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