Michael Pillsbury, a China expert at the Hudson Institute, said that leaving more uncertainty in the agreement could foster more trade fights between the world’s two largest economies, particularly given a complex enforcement mechanism the two sides previously agreed to establish to ensure both countries lived up the agreement.

“There is information coming out of Beijing that this is part of a larger move

“In my study of Chinese negotiating tactics, in almost every case, they believe the end game is where they can score the most points,” Michael Pillsbury, a China scholar at the Hudson Institute and an adviser on China to the White House. “They’ll be totally prepared for this final phase.”

Michael Pillsbury, a China scholar at the Hudson Institute and an adviser on China to

Michael Pillsbury, who has advised President Trump on China, said he was not given a visa to attend a conference in Beijing, a first in decades of visiting the country.