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Trump will temper approach on China, says Yale don

Stephen Roach, a China authority, says savings rate and trade imbalances means Trump cannot be too harsh with Beijing

Published Fri, Nov 18, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    Singapore

    A LEADING authority on China has suggested that it would be best for US President-elect Donald Trump to tone down on his anti-China rhetoric and be more pragmatic when he enters the White House.

    Stephen Roach, formerly chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and now a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, said at the opening of Morgan Stanley's 15th Annual Asia-Pacific Summit in Singapore: "I think (Trump) definitely will act upon several of the strong positions he's said . . . but I think on China, it's certainly one of these areas in which strong positions will get tempered."

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