Column: How Trump’s trade war risks a military conflict

Klobuchar column: Trump policies are making life tougher across Minnesota

WASHINGTON — Minnesota relies on the strength of our state’s rural communities and farmlands. As your senator and as one of the leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, it’s important to me to hear directly about the challenges you are facing. Every year I go to all 87 of Minnesota’s counties, and last month, I went on a 19-county tour to visit farms, small businesses, and other organizations throughout rural Minnesota. Everywhere I went, I …

Column: How Trump’s trade war risks a military conflict

The U.S. and China reached an initial trade agreement that will, in theory, halt the countries’ slide toward a full-blown trade war. Yet the dynamics that fueled President Donald Trump’s attempt to single-handedly decouple the world’s two largest economies persist. Absent more vigorous efforts to limit misunderstandings and miscalculations between Washington and Beijing, the two countries could easily re-enter the escalatory spiral they’re tryin…