Editor's note: The trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies – the US and China –- that began last year has triggered heated discussions about how the disputes can be resolved. China Daily website readers share their opinions.

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Continuing the trade war by hiking the tariffs will kill the US economic recovery which Trump needs to win reelectionre-election. Trump knows that he can’t afford to lose the elections due to an economic downturn which is the likely result of a prolonged trade war.

China is already moving away from export-oriented manufacturing industries to a domestic -market focused on technology and the services economy, making the old complaints about technology transfers effectively moot and academic as indigenous innovations become the engine of growth for China’s economy.