Trump’s Currency War Battle with China Goes Live
Welcome to the currency wars. The Trump administration has entered a new low in relations with China. The change comes after the White House announced it is officially beginning to take aim at China’s economic strategy.
As friction between the world’s greatest economic powers deteriorates toward a high stakes currency war, the global economy could see spillover in financial, geopolitical and trade arenas.
The White House recently announced its plan to open up fresh investigations into Chinese trade and intellectual property practices. Now that China’s 100 days are upfollowing Trump’s meeting with President Xi Jinping, the White House is no longer holding back on contempt for China.
President Trump campaigned on a hardline message on China, but seemingly backed off of rhetoric after entering office. That approach changed after his geopolitical targeting on Twitter that lashed out at the Chinese government and the lack of action toward North Korea.
I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet.
hem to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet…
Conditions on the Korean peninsula appear as though they will continue to escalate, and as they do the expectation is that it will drive a major wedge between the U.S and China. What that means is conditions are extremely ripe for a trade and currency war between the respective economic powers and their global trade operations.
All hope is not lost, yet. That is primarily because a significant amount of pressure has been placed on the North Korean regime. Seemingly, as goes the China-North Korean relationship so swings the pendulum of the Trump administration.
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