I respectfully think that Politico writers Adam Behsudi and Doug Palmer are wrong in their warning that a Chinese boycott of U.S. goods and services could win a trade war with the United States.

The authors quote U.S. national foreign trade council chief, Rufus Yerxa who warns that China could respond to new U.S. tariffs by saying “we can easily take this U.S. company out here because we’ve got a Japanese company, or a Korean company, or a European company ready to come in and do the same kind of business here.”

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