Janet Yellen’s speech on China attempts to tamp down tensions

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In a major speech on Thursday at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made it clear that there was no winner in the competition between the United States and China, that the fate of the world’s two largest economies are intertwined. As host Marco Werman explains, her speech comes at a time of rising tensions. 

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