What Would Happen If China Started Selling Off Its Treasury Portfolio?
Just How Important Have Foreign Inflows Been to the Treasury Market?
CFR,
2018
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With trade tensions looming and China in the cross hairs of the Trump Administration’s tariff bazooka, one of many concerns involves the financial impact of a full-scale fight between the world’s two largest economies. China has several possible responses to US-imposed tariffs, and while retaliatory duties or currency depreciation are possible, economist Brad W. Setser previews a third option: Chinese leaders divesting the country’s $1.5 trillion US Treasury and agency securities portfolio. getAbstract recommends this insightful though technical report to analysts and economists for its nuanced look at fiscal and monetary policy salvos in a trade war.
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Brad W. Setser is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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