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Trump can just cut off China's easy access to US dollars to win trade war

From 2009 to 2014, China may have taken in as much as $2 trillion in hot money spewing from the Federal Reserve's low interest-rate policy

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Anne Stevenson-Yang | Bloomberg
If the trade war's objective is to even the playing field for American firms, President Donald Trump isn't going about it the right way. China’s easy access to US dollars over the past decade has fueled asset bubbles, driven an overseas debt binge and laid the groundwork for its low-cost, export-driven economy. Only cutting off the supply of cheap money will reverse this.

So while Trump is pressuring Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to cut interest rates – questioning the central bank chief's patriotism and calling him "a bigger enemy than Xi Jinping" – the way to wring equitable behavior