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Why did Trump change his mind and accept partial agreement after trade talks with China?

US President Donald Trump met with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He at the White House on October 11 and announced that China and the United States reached a first-phase agreement. Trump also said that he will also meet with China at the APEC summit in Chile in November and sign an agreement. The New York Times reported that just a few weeks ago, Trump was still seeking a comprehensive agreement. But today's agreement is far from a comprehensive agreement that Trump has been pushing. Many of the issues that the current government is most concerned about about China's economic behavior are still pending. Although the exact terms of the agreement are still being negotiated, the details announced by Trump include many concessions previously proposed by China, including the purchase of US agricultural products. It does not seem to solve some of the most difficult problems that the two countries have been trying to solve. The report said that if the two sides can not make progr