02 Apr 2021 / 09:30 H.
A cargo ship at a port in Qingdao, China. Trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies are not going away anytime soon. – AFPPIX
PETALING JAYA: Given bright prospects of a global trade rebound as economies recover from a Covid-19 pandemic induced slump, experts have yet to dispel the spectre of US-China trade tensions entirely despite the absence of the chief agitator, former US president Donald Trump.
MIDF Research head Imran Yassin recalled that Malaysia, as a highly open economy, experienced the impact of the trade dispute between the two largest economies prior to the pandemic during Trump’s administration.