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While the dust settles on the U.S.’s midterm elections questions abound about where the country’s international trade and economic policies go from here. As it stands the U.S. is squarely ”at a disadvantage” with countries like China argues economist Clyde Prestowitz a former trade negotiator and author of The Betrayal of American Prosperity. Wharton management professor Stephen J. Kobrin and Knowledge at Wharton spoke with Prestowitz about the elections and beyond how the U.S.’s economic leadership is being undermined whether China’s development is a threat or an opportunity and what options President Obama has to take global economies off the path of ”mutually assured destruction.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.