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Trump's TikTok fiasco shakes dollar, boosting Xi's grand yuan plan

Dollar's slide suggests years of Trumpian caprice are finally taking a toll

| China
Posterity may remember Trump doing even more to raise China's clout.   © STAR MAX/AP

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

Donald Trump's presidency is unraveling and taking the U.S. dollar down with it, in ways sure to darken Asia's 2020 even further.

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