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U.S., Japan agree in principle on trade deal worth ‘billions and billions’

U.S President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands as they participate in a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Trump said Sunday that he has reached a trade deal with Japan, is confident of reaching one with the U.K., and is still determined to force China to make enough concessions to get a deal with Beijing.

In this handout photo taken from the Twitter account of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, shows French President Emmanuel Macron, right, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian, second right, meeting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left in white shirt, Sunday, Aug.25, 2019 in Biarritz, southwestern France. Zarif paid an unannounced visit Sunday to the G-7 summit and headed straight to the buildings where leaders of the world's major democracies have been debating how to handle the country's nuclear ambitions. (Twitter account of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif via AP)

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FBI Director Christopher A. Wray singled out China's Thousand Talents Plan during testimony to the Senate last month. While acknowledging the plan isn't inherently illegal, Mr. Wray said FBI investigations have uncovered cases in which it was used to flow U.S. intellectual property to China. (Associated Press photograph)

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James Kraig Kahler listens to the judge while being sentenced in Osage County Court in Lyndon, Kan. on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. A judge sentenced Kahler to death for fatally shooting his estranged wife, their two daughters and his wife's grandmother, then ordered him to stay in court and listen to his victims' relatives talk about the pain he caused them. Kahler was convicted in August in the 2009 killings in Kansas. Kahler shot his 44-year-old wife Karen, her 89-year-old grandmother Dorothy Wight, and the Kahlers' two daughters, 18-year-old Emily and 16-year-old Lauren, as the couple struggled through a divorce. (AP Photo/Anthony S. Bush, Pool)

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James Kraig Kahler listens to the judge while being sentenced in Osage County Court in Lyndon, Kan. on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. A judge sentenced Kahler to death for fatally shooting his estranged wife, their two daughters and his wife's grandmother, then ordered him to stay in court and listen to his victims' relatives talk about the pain he caused them. Kahler was convicted in August in the 2009 killings in Kansas. Kahler shot his 44-year-old wife Karen, her 89-year-old grandmother Dorothy Wight, and the Kahlers' two daughters, 18-year-old Emily and 16-year-old Lauren, as the couple struggled through a divorce. (AP Photo/Anthony S. Bush, Pool)

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