Trump’s Trade War Is Morphing Into Deep State Economic Warfare

With his crackdown on Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. and a new directive targeting European and Japanese carmakers, his administration is displaying its penchant to invoke U.S. national security in the broadest way possible. In doing so Trump is exploiting a loophole in global trading rules and doing what his predecessors spent years urging China and others not to at the risk of opening a protectionist Pandora’s box.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-17/on-huawei-and-autos-trump-aligns-trade-with-security-doctrines?srnd=premium