<p class="title">White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow compared trade talks with China on Friday to the US standoff with Russia during the Cold War. In other words, negotiations could continue for a long time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">US and Chinese officials have agreed to hold their next round of talks in Washington next month.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kudlow discounted the notion that next year's election increases the urgency for President Donald Trump to conclude the trade war.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The stakes are so high, we have to get it right, and if that takes a decade, so be it," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kudlow emphasized that it took the United States decades to get the results it wanted with Russia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He noted that he worked in the Ronald Reagan administration: "I remember President Reagan waging a similar fight against the Soviet Union."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Sometimes you have to stick with it. And I think you will find this president's commitment is unlimited because he believes he is defending the country and its workers and its security," Kudlow said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The US and China have raised tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's imports, disrupting trade in goods including soybeans and medical equipment and battering traders on both sides.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The US is calling on China to curb its theft of sensitive technology and its efforts to force US firms to hand over trade secrets. Both practices are part of a strategy to supplant American technological supremacy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kudlow's comments are in keeping with the administration's position that it's not in a hurry to reach an agreement and that China is the one suffering from the dispute.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Still, Kudlow's comments comparing the dispute to the Cold War take the patience game to a new level at a time when the latest jobs report would indicate the trade war with China has slowed hiring.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"President Trump has persuaded people in America of the importance of this," Kudlow said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This is a major economic security issue, this is a major human rights issue and maybe, most of all, it's a major national security issue." Kudlow said that each time the two sides meet, "there is progress of sorts." He said he was encouraged they would be meeting again next month.</p>
<p class="title">White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow compared trade talks with China on Friday to the US standoff with Russia during the Cold War. In other words, negotiations could continue for a long time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">US and Chinese officials have agreed to hold their next round of talks in Washington next month.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kudlow discounted the notion that next year's election increases the urgency for President Donald Trump to conclude the trade war.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The stakes are so high, we have to get it right, and if that takes a decade, so be it," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kudlow emphasized that it took the United States decades to get the results it wanted with Russia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He noted that he worked in the Ronald Reagan administration: "I remember President Reagan waging a similar fight against the Soviet Union."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Sometimes you have to stick with it. And I think you will find this president's commitment is unlimited because he believes he is defending the country and its workers and its security," Kudlow said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The US and China have raised tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's imports, disrupting trade in goods including soybeans and medical equipment and battering traders on both sides.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The US is calling on China to curb its theft of sensitive technology and its efforts to force US firms to hand over trade secrets. Both practices are part of a strategy to supplant American technological supremacy.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kudlow's comments are in keeping with the administration's position that it's not in a hurry to reach an agreement and that China is the one suffering from the dispute.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Still, Kudlow's comments comparing the dispute to the Cold War take the patience game to a new level at a time when the latest jobs report would indicate the trade war with China has slowed hiring.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"President Trump has persuaded people in America of the importance of this," Kudlow said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This is a major economic security issue, this is a major human rights issue and maybe, most of all, it's a major national security issue." Kudlow said that each time the two sides meet, "there is progress of sorts." He said he was encouraged they would be meeting again next month.</p>