“When you’re already $500bn DOWN, you can’t lose.” Donald Trump’s tweet earlier this week was a neat summary of the US president’s approach to trade: it combined economic illiteracy with the fallacy of an addicted gambler. Having set out plans to apply tit-for-tat tariffs to a collective $100bn worth of imports, the US and China now seem to be playing double or quits, with Mr Trump ordering officials to identify products on which to impose a further $100bn of tariffs, and Beijing declaring its intention to fight back.
“當你已經虧了5000億美元的時候，你不會輸！”美國總統唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)本周早些時候的推文是對他貿易原則的一次簡潔總結：這一原則把經濟常識的缺乏與賭徒謬誤混合在一起。在制定對總計1000億美元的進口商品加征報復性關稅的計劃后，美國和中國現在似乎在進行一場要么翻倍、要么扯平的賭博：特朗普命令官員列出加征關稅的1000億美元產品清單，北京方面則宣布將要反擊。
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