A Trade war isn't the best way to describe what is actually happening in relation to China

A better way to describe this is that people in the U.S. and China will die because of this apparent "Trade War".

So, people will die just like with Sanctions on Russia, and North Korea and Iran over the years.

But, the people that will die are not the ruling class but the poorest in each country (sort of like the fishermen and their families who starved to death and froze from North Korea before they washed up on the shores of Japan 3 to 6 months later.

But, the other way to look at this is we might actually get China's respect once again. By doing this we won't have 300 billion dollars in stolen intellectual property stolen every year like we do now.

For example, ANY U.S. company that wants to do business in China is FORCED to share all it's technology with China right now or else they are forbidden from doing business with China at all.

Then they take "U.S. Stolen technology and undercut those companies worldwide.

This is just a part of Chinese "Unfair Trade Practices" that they do every day but deny doing to our faces. But, every company in the U.S. is faced with this type of thing 24 hours a day if they want to do business in China.

So, in this sense what Trump is trying to do is to "level the playing field so the U.S. isn't getting screwed 24 hours a day any more.

Will he succeed?

That's hard to say.

Have you ever read "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu?

This book also applies to business because in Asia "Business is War!"

Not understanding this is death to any country on earth.