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Senior Yale academic says Washington's policies not in the best interests of China-US relations

Considered Wall Street's leading expert on China, Stephen Roach, senior fellow at Yale University and former chair of Morgan Stanley Asia, has spent more than two decades researching and writing about China.

His interest in China was first kindled in the late 1990s, when he realized how different it was from other crisis-battered Asian economies at the time and identified it as the key to end the Asian financial crisis.