How global trade is undergoing combative transformation
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US, China, Europe are battling for their interests in new trade era.
The world’s three dominant economies are entering a combative phase that threatens to deepen fractures and challenges decades of free-market orthodoxy as the US uses trade weapons borrowed from China’s playbook, leaving Europe with big decisions to make.
Then-President Donald Trump
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