China mulls trade war self-harm

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The AFR is reporting that China is stumped by trade war or, more to the point, Trumped:

“We did get a sense of deep concern about the trade tension with the United States and that we could be in a period of prolonged and protracted trade tensions, and there isn’t all that much that the PRC [People’s Republic of China] can immediately do,” China Matters founder and chief executive Linda Jakobson told The Australian Financial Review.

“They feel many of the demands that have been put on them require long-term structural changes. Candidly, our interlocutors pointed out there isn’t much they can retaliate with.”

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.