WASHINGTON: If 2018 was the year that Donald Trump gave the world a new taste of an ancient phenomenon – trade wars – then 2019 is shaping up to be the one in which the combat risks being fiercest.
President Trump is as unpredictable a leader as a major economy has seen in generations. For that reason alone there are myriad scenarios – from de-escalation to all-out economic war between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China – within the realm of the possible.
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