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Trump’s China Problem Is That a Weak Yuan Is a Strong Weapon
His tariffs lose potency in the face of a currency shift that favors Chinese exporters.
08 Aug 2019, 10:14 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- President Donald Trump has bragged repeatedly, in tweets and press conferences, that China is absorbing the cost of U.S. tariffs on Chinese products. He said it again on Aug. 5, tweeting that “it is now even more obvious to everyone that Americans are not paying for the Tariffs—they are being paid for compliments of China, and the U.S. is taking in tens of Billions of Dollars!”
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