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Shock and Awe Won’t Work in a Trade War

Shock and Awe Won’t Work in a Trade War

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Jun 23, 2018
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Shock and Awe Won’t Work in a Trade War
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US President Donald Trump, who famously said that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” is about to learn that he has a formidable adversary in China, which has methods of making US businessmen howl for mercy in ways that have nothing to do with tariffs.

The President has picked a war of his own choosing, much as George W Bush did with shock and awe in…

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