CHINA TO INSIST U.S. LIFTS HUAWEI BAN AS PART OF TRADE TRUCE –

Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to present President Trump with a set of terms the U.S. should meet before Beijing is ready to settle the trade confrontation, raising questions of whether the two leaders will agree to relaunch talks. Among the preconditions, Beijing is insisting that the U.S. remove its ban on the sale of U.S. technology to Huawei Technologies Co. Beijing also wants the U.S. to lift all punitive tariffs and drop efforts to get China to buy even more U.S. exports than Beijing said it would when the two leaders last met in December. (Wall Street Journal)