by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
Mises.org
President Trump faces trouble, and he is handling it in a dangerous way. Our economy is reeling as the Fed pours out billions of dollars in a futile effort to avert disaster. We know to our cost that politicians, faced with crisis at home, provoke war “to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.”
Unfortunately, this is just what Trump is doing. According to a CNN news report on Friday, May 28,
President Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on Beijing Friday, naming misdeeds that range from espionage to the violation of Hong Kong’s freedoms, and announced a slew of retaliatory measures that will plunge US-China relations deeper into crisis.