The United States intends to break the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in order to deal with the "multi-trillion dollar problem" that is China and stop it gaining economic supremacy, a former diplomat to the WTO told Business Insider.
Trump will likely raise $200 billion in fresh tariffs against China before the midterm elections, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama told BI, breaking the WTO and effectively ending an era of free trade that has lasted for 23 years.
Europe, Japan and the US are now working together to tackle the Chinese "problem" that they all face.
They want to address the "uneven playing field" that the state controlled economic policies of China have created - as its GDP balloons past $11.6 trillion.