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Emerging markets' aim to match China's growth may be dashed
Trump's trade policies seen hampering their ability to sustain growth rates that lifted populations into the middle class
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Wed, Feb 1, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Jakarta
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump's trade policies could dash the hopes of emerging Asian economies seeking to emulate China's early development, according to former Indonesian finance minister Chatib Basri.
Signs that Mr Trump is embarking on an era of American protectionism - heightened after he nixed the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership pact and by his threats to start a trade war with China - are causing anxiety across South-east Asia.
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