truce
Example Sentences
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China currently dominates the global supply, giving it crucial leverage, which helped Beijing reach a temporary trade truce with the US in November that defused tensions.
From BBC
The administration has reached trade truces with the European Union, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam while promising to de-escalate tensions with China.
Allies proposed that the US would take the lead in monitoring a truce.
From BBC
Beijing will not want to jeopardise the fragile trade truce it just signed with the US, but it won't want to lose its foothold in Latin America either.
From BBC
The two countries agreed a truce on December 27, ending three weeks of clashes.
From Barron's
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