The burgeoning US-China trade war isn't impossible to stop, it's just that there's no clear way of ending it — especially because it's not obvious what President Donald Trump wants out of all of this in the first place, or what China is willing to give.
The United States just after midnight on Friday made good on its threat to impose sweeping tariffs on Beijing, putting a 25 percent border tax on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods imported to the US. China responded with $34 billion of tariffs of its own on its imports from America.
The tariffs and counter-tariffs mark the start of a trade war for which there's no obvious end. Worst-case scenario: It results in a series of measures and counter-measures that could have a major negative impact on consumers and global economies. Best-case scenario: The sides reach some sort of an agreement, and it ends.
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