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    US economic wars: first as farce, then as tragedy

    The US economic war against China echoes the trade war against Japan in the eighties

    Manas Chakravarty
    June 07, 2023 / 08:55 IST
    The charge against Japan was the same as that being levelled against China now---that it was using a deliberately undervalued currency to boost its exports and rack up huge current account surpluses, while keeping its own markets relatively closed
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