The players: The baddest cop of all is Trump himself, whose bellicose rhetoric on China suggests he’s willing to risk all to get “better deals” for America. White House strategist Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart News executive, shares Trump’s view of an America snookered by China seems to be a hard-line protectionist. Economist Peter Navarro, a business professor at the University of California, Irvine, is a longtime China basher who heads a new White House council on trade. And Trump’s nominee for U.S. trade representative, Joe Lighthizer, is a China critic and lawyer who has represented U.S. manufacturers accusing China of illegally dumping products onto the U.S. market at artificially low prices.

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