Trump’s trade warIt’s really about dominance over technology and AI

Martin Feldstein, chairman emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research and professor of economics at Harvard University, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Jackson Hole economic symposium, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, in Moran, Wyoming, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. Feldstein discussed the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

IT doesn’t seem to end. It now risks expanding to become a tech cold war as well.

Readers ask: Surely, Trump’s uncalled for imposition of tariffs is illegal – certainly against WTO rules which permit new tariffs only under special circumstances – and unilaterally taxing China trade or curbing immigration isn’t one of them. It is also a clear violation of US international agreements and obligations.