Stephen Roach gives his take on the US-China trade war

Stephen Roach explains why escalating trade tensions with China is not a good thing for the U.S. economy and how deals between U.S. and Chinese companies happen.

Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the author, most recently, of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China and Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization.