detente

Détente lowered tensions with Moscow to reduce pressure on the U.S.

The row saw the two slap each other with eye-watering tariffs this year, and while they have reached a shaky detente, tensions continue to simmer.

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer offered Wednesday about the source of the unraveling of the fragile détente previously reached between the two rivals.

Nonetheless, the China-U.S. trade detente that had helped global stocks power higher all summer looks to be on shaky ground once again.

Greer noted a willingness from his Chinese counterparts to talk to defuse the tensions that upended a fragile detente between the two rivals.