This is a well thought out over these initial stages of the World Trade War with China by US

Let us be very clear on this.

In an full all out trade war with China, China will suffer, the US will suffer and the rest of the world will suffer.

This extra-ordinarily prescient over-view:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-china-trade-war-conflict-by-kishore-mahbubani-2018-05

of this Trumpian ideological clash with China over trade, merits a most careful read.

Of the literati, cognoscenti and intelligentsia of the US, they know that they will have to share it with their colleagues.

The crux of the problem is obvious. THE Donald went to the famed Wharton School of business. However he did not study economics. 

He is now like a German Stuka dive bomber. He is not attacking Buckingham Palace. He is attacking the Pacific Ocean near Tuvalu.