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You can't contain China: former US trade chief Robert Zoellick warns Donald Trump

2019-01-15 09:54:43       source:South China Morning Post

January 15, 2019


Donald Trump’s mission to decouple the United States and Chinese economies is doomed to fail, with former US trade chief and World Bank president Robert Zoellick warning: “You can’t contain China.”


Fear of China’s potential dominance of future technologies is one of the primary drivers of the trade war, which is widely viewed as an attempt at countering this rise.


The trade war is also seen as a way of forcing US companies to shift their supply chains out of China, thereby decreasing the integration of the two economic superpowers.


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https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2182022/you-cant-contain-china-former-us-trade-chief-robert-zoellick