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Vital Signs. Blame Trump, not China for the looming trade and currency war

Author: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

We are being sucked in to something Trump started.Shutterstock

Donald Trump is at it again. He triggered trade tensions with China in January 2018 by imposing tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines and quickly moved on to steel and aluminium – before brokering a tentative peace with President Xi Jinping.

Then last week he...

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