The ‘giant hole’ in Trump’s new China deal

The China trade deal President Donald Trump is hailing as a major win fails to address some of Beijing’s most egregious practices — the issues that sparked the trade war in the first place.

Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed the agreement during a White House ceremony Wednesday after nearly two years of escalating trade tensions that saw both sides ratchet up tariffs on hundreds of billions' worth of each other’s goods.