I'm Michelle Goldberg.

I'm Ross Douthit.

I'm David Lee Unhart, and this is the argument.

This week, does the United States need to confront China?

Can these tariffs change China's behavior overall?

Then, are labor unions enjoying a comeback?

It's a response to increasing desperation and disempowerment.

And finally, a recommendation.

It's sort of fallen out of our collective memory in a lot of ways.

The United States and China are engaged in a trade skirmish.

With each country slapping tariffs on the other, the confrontation has the potential

to slow the global economy and it's already made investors nervous.

The markets are really taking a hammering today.

But it's not an accident.

The Trump administration has been quite clear about the fact that it wants to take a more

hawkish stance toward China than other recent presidents did.

So Ross, are you on board with all this with the brewing Trump trade war?

Well, as always, with the Trump White House, it's a very fraught, high-risk thing to defend

anything that they're doing because you shouldn't assume that there's any kind of definite

coherent plan behind it.

But with that caveat, I think there's a lot of sort of weird coverage of the Trump versus

China stuff from people, at least in our line of work, in the Twitter sphere and so on,

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