Outside voices: Without Lighthizer, will Trump’s trade policy lead to ‘chaos?’

“The rest of the world should buckle up” now that President-elect Trump has declared himself “disrupter in chief,” writes Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Edward Alden, expecting “chaos as an unpredictable president uses trade threats to pursue whatever unrelated issue he wishes.” In a Foreign Affairs analysis titled “ Trump will be his own trade czar ,” Alden rests his warning on two foundations: One involves the rapid-fire tariff threats that the president-to-be has made ahead of taking office...