Lovely weighs in on US-China trade deal targets, tensions on NPR

May 28, 2020

NPR

Mary E. Lovely

Economics Department

China

Economic Policy

Trade

United States

NPR

Mary E. Lovely

Professor Mary Lovely says targets for exports of farm goods, factory products, and crude oil were always going to be a stretch. And the coronavirus pandemic has made things worse. "The world has changed," Lovely says. "And clearly, China's purchases are going to be affected. One, because their demand collapsed; secondly, because American supply collapsed. So you had sort of a double whammy on their reaching these purchase targets." Lovely was interviewed by NPR for the segment titled "U.S.-China Tensions Were Already High. Pandemic And Hong Kong Have Made Things Worse." 05/28/20