President Trump’s economic conflict with China is set to escalate this week, as the administration plans to impose further tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese products entering the U.S. With the expected new round of U.S. tariffs, the Trump administration will have levied duties on roughly half of the more than $500 billion in Chinese goods that enter the U.S. each year.
Much discussion around the escalating trade war has focused on trying to identify what Trump aims to achieve, or if this marks the first steps in a deeper and prolonged strategic conflict. At the latest edition of the Chamber’s long running macroeconomic series Insight China, experts will discuss the impact the trade war is having on economic policy making in China, and assess how the economy is positioned to weather any incoming storms coming across the Pacific.
Will the trade war prompt the Chinese government to pull back on their efforts at de-leveraging and tackling systemic risk in the economy? As Anne Stevenson-Yang has argued recently could this the trigger a domestic debt crisis? Is following a strategy of Yuan depreciation a wise move to blunt the worst effects of Trump’s measures? The European Chamber is delighted to welcome Lucy Hornby (Financial Times) and Dan Wang (Economist Intelligence Unit) to join Stevenson-Yang (J Capital Research) to address these burning questions and to share their views on China’s economic outlook as Trump’s trade war begins to bite.
Agenda
16:00-16:30 Registration
16:30-18:00 Panel Discussion moderated by Lingling Wei, Chief China Economics Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
- Anne Stevenson-Yang, Research Director, J Capital Research
- Lucy Hornby, Deputy Bureau Chief, Financial Times
- Dan Wang, Senior Analyst, the Economist Intelligence Unit
Views expressed by speakers at this event do not necessarily reflect the opinions or position of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China
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