A YEAR AGO, a team of researchers led by The Ohio State University received a grant to study how tariffs affect food, water and energy in America's heartland. Coincidently, that's about the same time that President Trump started the tariff tit-for-tatwith China. Now, it's not just scientific modeling that ;rves as the base for these numbers, but real evidence. Brought on by forced technology transfer, discriminatory licensing restrictions, theft of intellectual property, investment restrictions andsubsidies to state-owned enterprises,Trump — as he campaigned on — was intent on "getting tough on China."
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