'Game over, we win!': Donald Trump wants to draw US Federal Reserve into trade war against China
2019-05-15 09:18:01 source：South China Morning Post
May 15, 2019
US President Donald Trump called on the Federal Reserve to “match” what he said China would do to offset economic hardship being caused by tariffs as he sought to draft the US central bank into his simmering trade war.
“China will be pumping money into their system and probably reducing interest rates, as always, in order to make up for the business they are, and will be, losing,” the president said in a tweet on Tuesday. “If the Federal Reserve ever did a ‘match,’ it would be game over, we win! In any event, China wants a deal!”
His suggestion that the Fed could help him counter China in the countries’ trade war builds on Trump’s repeated efforts to pressure the US central bank to stimulate the American economy, even though growth is solid and unemployment is at a 49-year low.
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