# Professor Nouriel Roubini shares his views on US-China trade tensions

1 Faculty News April 6, 2018 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-04-06/nouriel-roubini-sees-possible-escalation-to-a-full-scale-trade-war-video) -- "The... optimists say that Trump is just trying to increase his bargaining power and is using these threats as a way of opening up China. I have a slightly more pessimistic view because the economic nationalists are in and those who are internationalist are out \[of the Trump administration\]."

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