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The trade war is back on as US increases tariffs on Chinese goods to 25% even while talks continue - but it has never been clear what the US think they could realistically achieve in these talks (China to buy more US products, or dismantle their economic system?)
"They'll be paying" where they in the immediate term = US consumers paying higher prices. Both sides are poised to lose economically assuming, as seems likely, China retaliates theguardian.com/us-news/2019/m…
Trump thinks he can fix whatever issues he / the administration have concerns about (none of which are new) by breaking the rules - threatening all of us reliant on the WTO system set up to avoid discriminatory bilateral tariffs without sufficient justification /end
PS This is probably true in both US and UK among certain politicians at the populist end of the scale...
