USA against the world: Trump's trade war explained

USA vs. the world: how Trump's trade wars come about, why Europe doesn't stand a chance - and what's behind the China fixation of his most important advisor.

Trump's global trade war is taking on ever clearer contours. It is following a pattern that primarily serves one goal: maximum control over international economic flows - even at the expense of his own allies. This was the case again recently: the EU offered the US a "zero-for-zero" deal - a mutual waiver of tariffs on industrial products. Trump rejecte…