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NOVANEWS Trump’s Trade War with China: Imagine What Would Happen if China Decided to Impose Economic Sanctions on the USA? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research First published in August 2017, Updated  March 23, 2018 Author’s Note President Trump has announced a trade war directed against China. He has duly instructed his administration to impose tariffs on about $50 billion worth of Chinese imports. His stated objective is to reduce the trade deficit with China. What Trump does not realize is that the trade deficit with China contributes to sustaining America’s retail economy, it also contributes to the growth of America’s GDP. Trade sanctions directed against China would immediately backlash against America. China is not dependent on US  imports. Quite the opposite. Amer...

NOVANEWS Dangerous Crossroads: America Threatens China, US Deploys THAAD Missile System in South Korea, Beijing Warns of Nuclear Arms Race By Peter Symonds World Socialist Web Site   The US has begun the installation of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system in South Korea, provoking an angry reaction from China, which warned that it could trigger a nuclear arms race in the region. The provocative move will heighten the already tense situation on the Korean Peninsula as the US and South Korea engage in huge annual war games. Two trucks, each mounted with a THAAD launch pad, were landed aboard a C-17 cargo plane at the US military’s Osan Air Base, south of Seoul, on Monday night. According to South Korean military officials, more equipment ...

NOVANEWS By Rajan Menon, TomDispatch President Xi Jinping of China during a summit in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2016. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) Forget those "bad hombres down there" in Mexico that US troops might take out. Ignore the way National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put Iran "on notice" and the new president insisted, that, when it comes to that country, "nothing is off the table." Instead, focus for a moment on something truly scary: the possibility that Donald Trump's Washington might slide into an actual war with the planet's rising superpower, China. No kidding. It could really happen. Let's start with silver-maned, stately Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state. Who could deny that the former ExxonMobil CEO has a foreign ministe...