Andrew Browne & Nisid Hajari , Columnists

Accelerating the trade war crisis


Greetings, I'm Andy Browne, Editorial Director of the Bloomberg New Economy. Perhaps the outbreak of a U.S.-China technology Cold War was inevitable.


After all, America’s long struggle against the Soviet Union, and later trade skirmishes with Japan, demonstrated its acute fear of being eclipsed in science and technology by a competitor. But China accelerated this crisis.