Don't be fooled by the calm before Trump's trade storm with China

Zero-sum-game mercantilism has the president anxious to don his 'Tariff Man' cape

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Consider the tariff delay nothing more than the calm before the Trumpian storm. It is coming, whether Asia believes it or not. © AP

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

Heads in Beijing must be spinning as Donald Trump begins his second presidency siding with China -- the arch villain he once railed against.

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