US needs a limited trade deal with China, for window dressing - Arthur Kroeber

Arthur Kroeber

A limited trade deal might be in the pipeline for the coming weeks, says leading economist Arthur Kroeber, author of China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® in the Stock Daily Dish. But the trade war is far from over, he warns. "There is a material risk (say 20 to 25%) that we don‘t get a deal.” 

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“My baseline scenario is that both leaders still need a deal for political reasons, so we are likely to get one in the next few weeks, but it won‘t be this week,” said Arthur Kroeber of Gavekal Dragonomics, a financial research firm headquartered in Hong Kong. “The maneuvering right now is mainly end-of-negotiation stuff. But both sides are playing brinkmanship pretty hard so there is material risk (say 20 to 25%) that we don‘t get a deal.”

But the prolonged trade war — and Friday‘s tariff hike — serves as ammunition for hawks on both sides, who see a more confrontational struggle for global dominance unfolding...

In Washington, the lack of a deal would result in “increased tensions between the national security wing of the U.S. administration, who will be happy with this result, and the business-tech community, who are anxious to expand their participation in China and will be pretty mad,” said Kroeber, of the Hong Kong financial research firm.

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