One key reason Trump delayed the trade deadline with China

Published February 25, 2019 4:57pm ET



Over the weekend, President Trump indefinitely postponed hiking tariffs on China with a pair of tweets writing, “I will be delaying the U.S. increase in tariffs now scheduled for March 1.”

With no agreement and plenty still to be worked out, the announcement of pushing back the deadline for a trade deal seems to have little to do with substantial new progress towards an agreement. Instead, the president offered insight into his motivation for prolonging a trade stalemate in a different tweet:

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