# Professor James Finch shares his perspective on the US-China currency conflict

1 Faculty News June 6, 2019 ![South China Morning Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_047736.jpg?itok=PvgrmXzZ)>

Excerpt from [South China Morning Post](https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3013201/china-has-ability-and-confidence-meet-any-challenge-posed) -- "[James Finch](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/james-finch), clinical associate professor of finance at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, said: 'The overwhelming driver in China is political control. To have a trade currency, you have to have to get rid of all the controls on the currency.'"

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