USA

Trump Turns Up Heat on International Trade

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5

President Trump doubled down on his tough talk on trade with a pair of executive orders that he says will level the playing field and reduce the $500 billion U.S. trade deficit, more than half of which is with China. But international economist Dany Bahar (@dany_bahar) at Brookings says the focus on trade imbalances misses the bigger picture. As Mil Arcega reports, the issue is likely to come up when Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week.