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Interview: U.S. president's economic agenda may trigger trade war, says Greek expert

2017-02-12 08:53:15       source:Xinhua News Agency

February 12, 2017


"Ten years after the start of the biggest international economic calamity in post-war history, U.S. President Donald Trump's economic agenda is likely to bring a new circle of debt crisis and threatens to trigger a trade war globally, according to a Greek expert.


'The protective measures -- starting with the imposition of duties on imported goods -- not only may cause a new currency war, but a trade war as well, and they can also trigger a new international debt crisis,' Kostas Melas, Professor of Economics at Panteion University, Athens told Xinhua in a recent interview."


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