
The True Toll of the Trade War
Behind the escalating global conflict over trade and technology is a larger breakdown of the postwar rules-based order, which was based on a belief that any country's growth benefits all. Now that China is threatening to compete directly with the United States, support for the system that made that possible has disappeared.
CHICAGO β Another day, another attack on trade. Why is it that every dispute β whether over intellectual property (IP), immigration, environmental damage, or war reparations β now produces new threats to trade?