WASHINGTON—Last year, the world’s second-biggest economy experienced its slowest domestic growth in nearly three decades. But while China’s economic troubles run deep, they aren’t driven by the trade war with the United States, an expert says.
The weakening in the Chinese economy has nothing to do with the U.S.–China dispute, according to Derek Scissors, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and chief economist of the “China Beige Book.”
