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Apple and 7-Eleven show why Trump's threat to sever China trade over Korea rings hollow

  • Written by Greg Wright, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced

President Donald Trump tweeted on September 3 that the U.S. “is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea” after it performed a nuclear test.

Though North Korea currently trades with nearly 100 countries, this threat was almost certainly aimed at China, by far its bigg...

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