Trump’s New Trade War May Prove More Disruptive

“President Donald Trump wasted no time last week before lobbing tariff threats at just about every significant U.S. trading partner, in a bracing display of executive power that was reminiscent of his first-term assault on global trade,” the Washington Post reports.

“But Trump’s second trade war is shaping up to be much different from his first. The president’s ambitions for a reordering of world commerce are broader. The opposition — at home and abroad — is weaker. And the economic risks he seems prepared to run may be greater.”