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pter Five 蝚??蝡?

US-China Bilateral 蝢?葉??器?喟頂

Relations

Generally speaking, Chinese companies were ?颱????嚗?葉韏??銝??憭??隡??撖?2020撟渡?
more optimistic about the prospects for US-Chi- 銝??蝟餃????銝箔?閫????蝢?葉?喟頂?????
na relations in 2020 than foreign companies. Almost a 銝????漲???霈蹂?銝??鈭??嚗??銝??蝢?????隡????
half of the companies held a neutral attitude towards the 頞?????隞??銝?????蝢?葉?喟頂??????閫???漲????
bilateral relations in the upcoming year, and around 30
percent shared pessimism of the relations.

Even after the first phase of the US-China Trade ?喃蝙 ?? 蝢? 銝? 韐? ?? 蝚? 銝? ?? 畾? 颲? ?? ???隞? ?? ??
Agreement was reached, only 10 percent of ?????????隡??霈支蛹蝢?葉韐豢?蝥瑚???
the studied companies believed that the bilateral 2020撟湔?憭找?憭???賣?憭改????銝??餈??????嗡葉霈?
trade dispute would be unlikely to expand, nearly 銝箸????嚗??撣豢???????敶?????嚗??憭抒????隡?
10 percent down in contrast to 2018. It is generally 銝?噢銋??嚗??瘥?????????????
considered (by 90 percent of respondents) that the
escalation of dispute would be very likely or quite
likely continued, up 16 percent year-on-year.

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