The tariffs announced today on US imports from China won’t cause much direct economic damage since trade in the affected goods is already low. But US economic sanctions on China seem to act like a ratchet: they only ever get tighter. In many areas that China’s government has identified as strategic priorities, the US market looks set to be permanently out of bounds to Chinese producers.
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