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The China-Trump trade conflict has spread to Australia. We're now at risk of global currency war

  • Written by Hui Feng, ARC Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
imageThe Australian dollar has already slipped, falling to its lowest point against the US since the global financial crisis.Shutterstock

When US President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on Friday that he was slapping tariffs on an extra US$300 billion of China’s exports, it was widely expected that China’s currency would slide against...

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