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The next cold war? US-China trade war risks something worse

  • Written by Charles Hankla, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
There's a chill in the air these days.AP Photo/Andy Wong

President Donald Trump is making good on his pledge to escalate the trade war with China by imposing tariffs on US$200 billion of Chinese goods. The Chinese government, for its part, is already retaliating with new taxes on $60 billion of American imports.

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