(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said China may wait until after the 2020 U.S. presidential election to sign a trade agreement because Beijing would prefer to reach a deal with a Democrat.
“I think that China will probably say, let’s wait,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. “When I win, like almost immediately, they’re all going to sign deals.”
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