Donald Trump’s approach to foreign relations has never been subtle. But the president’s recent declarations about leveling the trade playing field with China, premised on market competition, are more political than economic, the chief executive of Barings said Tuesday.
“It’s definitely about voters now and that’s where you get the rhetoric,” Tom Finke, CEO and chairman of the North Carolina-based $304 billion asset management firm, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe.”