Michael Pettis

Michael Pettis is a senior fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and a finance professor at Peking University. He is also the author, with Matthew C. Klein, of the forthcoming book Trade Wars Are Class Wars.

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A demonstrator holds a U.S. dollar bill burned during a protest of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 30, 2010.
A demonstrator holds a U.S. dollar bill burned during a protest of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 30, 2010.

Global Capital Is the Tail That Wags the U.S. Economic Dog
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Sébastien Thibault illustration for Foreign Policy

Why Trade Wars Are Inevitable
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(GERMANY OUT) Chinese Yuan Renminbi and Dollar banknotes with portraits of Mao Zedong and Benjamin Franklin (Photo by Wodicka/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
(GERMANY OUT) Chinese Yuan Renminbi and Dollar banknotes with portraits of Mao Zedong and Benjamin Franklin (Photo by Wodicka/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

How China’s ‘Currency Manipulation’ Enhances the Global Role of the U.S. Dollar
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The Year of the Horse
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Crunch Time
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