By Reid Standish

US President Donald Trump has struck a truce in the trade war with China, telling reporters after his high-stakes meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea that he expects to sign a bilateral deal with Beijing “pretty soon.”

But even if Beijing and Washington are able to build on their progress in Busan and strike a deal, the US-China relationship looks set to remain tense due to the underlying frictions across defense, human rights, technology, and economic issues that are still shaping their ties.

Instead, the October 30 agreement to ease trade tensions is the first step of a wider push by both China and the United States to buy time as they look to enshrine rules on how to manage their superpower rivalry and dig in for a longer term comp

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