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Cornell University professor Eswar Prasad says China's economy "faces a variety of fragilities."  © Reuters

YUTA SAITO, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- The U.S. looks to maintain its strong growth while China confronts a slowdown, leaving the world's two largest economies on opposite trajectories as they try to shape the global order.

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