Columbia’s Sachs quits twitter after criticism of Huawei article


World reowned economist Prof Jeffrey Sachs giving a talk on Macroeconomic challenges in US, Europe and China at the Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong public lecture 2012 during his visit to Malaysia.

BEIJING: Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs (pic) closed his Twitter account after he was criticised in the past few weeks for accusing the United States of hypocrisy in seeking the extradition of a senior Huawei Technologies Co executive for alleged sanctions violations.

“I am enjoying the time saved from being off of Twitter,” Sachs said by email yesterday without directly addressing why he shut his account.

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