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What Keyu Jin thinks about tariffs

@keyu-jin · 16 positions · 0 changes of mind

Economist specialising in China's economy, international macroeconomics and global trade, and author of The New China Playbook.

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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Keyu Jin has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingTariffs will not fix what is wrong with global trade; they are a distortionary protectionist method and they will be bad for the country imposing them.

    Their wordsTariffs, this kind of highly protectionist method is very distortionary and it’s going to be bad for the US. I’d actually argue that both China and the US have totally taken advantage and also enjoyed the global economic realm under the US liberal order.

    ↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com 12th of 16 in this recording

    China

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  3. Our readingThe American trade deficit is a macroeconomic fact, not a trade one: the US saves less than it invests, so no tariff can close it.

    Their wordsThe trade deficits have widened since Trump, right? They haven’t closed the imbalance with China and with the rest of the world because ultimately the US saves less than it invests. And that’s a macrophenomenon. It’s not a trade phenomenon

    ↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com 13th of 16 in this recording

    ChinaAmerica

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