Trump Administration Accelerating Financial Decoupling With China: Experts

Trump Administration Accelerating Financial Decoupling With China: Experts
Investors look at a screen showing stock market movements at a securities company in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on Feb. 3, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Cathy He
Updated:
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning U.S. investments in a group of companies with ties to the Chinese military marks a significant step in accelerating an economic decoupling with the Chinese regime, according to experts.

Many of these companies are publicly traded on stock exchanges around the world. U.S. investors, through their pension funds, could also unwittingly transfer wealth to these entities from the United States.

Cathy He
Cathy He
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Cathy He is the politics editor at the Washington D.C. bureau. She was previously an editor for U.S.-China and a reporter covering U.S.-China relations.
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