Tariff List Raises Chance of Military Conflict, Summers Says

(Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers criticized U.S. policy on trade hours after the U.S. Commerce Department released a list identifying $200b in Chinese imports for possible tariffs.

Summers wrote,

Summers told Bloomberg Television in June that he’s got “fairly high anxiety about how this is all going to play out”.

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