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<em>Radio Atlantic</em>: Trump’s Trade War

Why did a Republican president start a trade war between the world’s two largest economies?

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Donald Trump isn’t like most Republican presidents, but his views just before a Chinese delegation visited the White House. On Monday, China with tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods. On this week’s , the staff writer Edward-Isaac Dovere sits down with Colin Grabow, a trade expert from the libertarian Cato Institute, to discuss the two trade battles at hand: one between the United States and China, and the other within the Republican Party.

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