Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Is America Winning Against China?

Trade and the U.S.-Sino relations.

Matters of Policy & Politics•September 27, 2018
Area 45: Is America Winning Against China?

President Trump delivered a U.N. address calling for China to change its American trade practices, which was followed by the two nations escalating their tariff war. Michael Auslin, Hoover Institution’s inaugural Williams-Griffis Fellow in Contemporary Asia, estimates what a prolonged trade war would have on the Chinese economy, as well as other aspects of U.S.-Sino relations.

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