Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Arthur Waldron Was Quoted by the South China Morning Post on Trump’s Probe into China Trade Practices

Arthur Waldron Was Quoted by the South China Morning Post on Trump’s Probe into China Trade Practices

Arthur Waldron Was Quoted by the South China Morning Post on Trump’s Probe into China Trade Practices


South China Morning Post

In an editorial published hours before the signing ceremony, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said Washington’s threat to investigate China’s trade practices would “harm mutually beneficial China-US trade ties and ultimately hurt American consumers”.

The investigation “will lead to tension and it will cause pain” for companies invested in China, Arthur Waldron, a University of Pennsylvania professor of international relations and an original member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post. “But remember, it was their decision to invest there.”

“I think there was a lot of faulty risk analysis [on the part of US companies investing in China], and I think a lot of that was because companies were so eager to get into the Chinese market.”

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