America’s trade war with China: a losing battle

Beijing is starting to see American trade policy as part of a deliberate attempt to stop China’s emergence as a great industrial and technological power and a real peer rival to the United States, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is far more able to ignore the resultant job losses and higher prices than U.S. President Donald Trump is–especially because the Americans who were hurting worst would be his own political 'base,' writes columnist Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Flickr feed

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

July 5, 2018

The U.S. could probably extract major concessions from China in a carefully managed confrontation on trading issues, because the Chinese don’t want a trade war with their best export customer. But the U.S. can’t win the trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump is...

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