Pence to talk tough on China.

“I can tell you now unfortunately the Chinese are back,” Dmitri Alperovitch, chief technology officer of U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, said Tuesday at a security conference in Washington, D.C.

The White House said in a statement that Congress had taken an important step toward fulfilling Trump’s commitment to reform development finance institutions “so that they better incentivize private-sector investment in emerging economies and provide strong alternatives to state-directed initiatives that come with hidden strings attached.”

Iranian foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif criticized the U.S. withdrawal, saying on Twitter, “Outlaw regime.”

In his order, U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade in Dallas extended until 2022 the term of a monitor he appointed to assess ZTE’s compliance with U.S. export control laws.

"We are ready to make some compromise," he said, but in recent negotiations "the U.S. position keeps changing all the time, so we don't know exactly what the U.S. would want as priorities."

Close shave.

Economic adviser Lawrence Kudlow said a meeting could take place when policy makers meet in Buenos Aires for the Group of 20 meeting.

White House hawks urged Trump to retaliate against Beijing meddling in US politics.

US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement excludes China.