Outside voices: Trump tariffs and the ‘game of chicken’

Playing chicken: “to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first.” -- Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Playing chicken in a trade context: “In effect, if elected, Trump would be playing a game of chicken with all the countries of the world,” writes Alan Wolff, Peterson Institute for International Economics senior researcher (and former World Trade Organization deputy director-general)...