Will China-U.S. Tariff Tensions Become a Trade War?

Posturing? Dispute? Trade war? No matter how you choose to describe it, the imposition of tariffs by the U.S. and China is causing ripples around the globe. Is it possible that the two economic juggernauts are actually on the verge of a trade war? How much of the rhetoric from Washington and Beijing is actually leading to policy changes and how is this affecting overall U.S.-China relations? We asked Robert Daly, director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, to sort through the media hype and identify political and economic realities in this edition of Wilson Center NOW.