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Malaysia's Running Out of Trump Cards
A flight to safe assets could worsen the country's dollar crunch and weigh on a sluggish consumer economy.
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Amid a deepening emerging-market rout, three of Donald Trump's seven promises to American workers are making Asia particularly nervous.
A U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership would kill the 12-nation deal, while labeling China as a currency manipulator is set to provoke a tit-for-tat response. If the president-elect delivers on those two threats, the export-led region will wait for Trump to make good on his vow to end "all foreign trading abuses."