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US and China sign Phase One trade deal

Dated 1 January 2020: US and China sign Phase One trade deal.

Who was responsible

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  • Liu He

    Person

    Shared responsibility

    verified

    Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

  • Robert Lighthizer

    Person

    Shared responsibility

    verified

    Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

What changed

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Factrail. (2026). US and China sign Phase One trade deal. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-and-china-sign-phase-one-trade-deal-2020

https://factrail.ai/facts/us-and-china-sign-phase-one-trade-deal-2020

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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