US economist cautions against trade sanctions on China

CHICAGO - Just after the US House of Representatives passed legislation which allows to impose trade sanctions on China to compensate for the "artificially weakened" yuan, a US economic expert warned against the Obama administration doing so.

David Besanko, a US economist and professor at the Northwestern University, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview that "it is untraditional for trade sanctions to be imposed on a country by the US government due to currency policy."