Bad Choices

As Carney seeks to re-engage, China faces strategic dilemmas

China is the epicentre of today’s escalating global tariff war.

While Trump pulled the latest trigger, bipartisan support for stronger trade action against China has been mounting in the US for over a decade.

Commentators are often fatalistic, arguing democracies ‘cannot win’ such a contest.

I’m not so sure.

(Workers in a Chinese toy factory/Michael Wolf)