Appeal for cool heads over China-US trade dispute

Think tanks back negotiations as main solution to ongoing friction

Researchers and former government officials from China and the United States have urged Washington and Beijing to remain rational and keep communicating, and stop slapping tariffs on each other, so to de-escalate their trade frictions.

They made the appeal at three round tables held by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University with the Asia Society in New York and with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Brookings Institution in Washington last week.