China Hits Back at Trump by Weakening Yuan, Halting Crop Imports
China responded to Donald Trump’s tariff threat with another escalation of the trade war on Monday, letting the yuan tumble to the weakest level in more than a decade and asking state-owned companies to suspend imports of U.S. agricultural products.
The moves are likely to further antagonize Trump, who has criticized Beijing for managing its currency unfairly and failing to keep promises to buy more U.S. crops.
Stocks and emerging-market currencies sank on concern a prolonged conflict between the superpowers will weigh on global economic growth, while haven assets including the Japanese yen, U.S. Treasuries and gold climbed. Investors increased bets on Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.
"It’s among the worst-case scenarios," said Michael Every, head of Asia financial markets research at Rabobank in Hong Kong. "First markets sell off, then Trump wakes up and this all gets far, far worse."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-05/china-hits-back-at-trump-with-weaker-yuan-halt-on-crop-imports?srnd=premium
Too bad the dumbass has no idea what he's doing and won't listen to his own economic advisors but it's really not surprising.
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to convince China to strengthen their currency to help level the playing field but as with everything else done during the previous administration to stabilize the world economy, that was all tossed out by the current administration. Because. Obama. 
Was wondering why the futures took a sudden nose dive this morning.
