China’s economic woes threaten real war amid tariff battle

The top reason countries go to war is economic and President Donald Trump’s "reciprocal" tariff battle is now, more than ever, focused on communist China, just as Beijing suffers a host of serious financial challenges. 

Could this become an example of what Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz said: "War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means"? 

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said Beijing is a bad actor and the tariff increase for China was "due to their [China’s] insistence on escalation." Of course...