Flailing at China

Stephen Roach | Yale University | 30 August 2019

This will be the tenth year that I have taught a course at Yale called "The Next China". The course focuses on modern China's daunting economic transitions. It frames the moving target that eludes US President Donald Trump's administration, which is taking dead aim at the Old China (a convenient target for a leader who wants to resurrect Old America). The incoherence of Trump’s trade and economic policies, with all their potentially grave consequences for the global economy,...