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The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory

2025-05-30 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·28m 24s ·by NPR
The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory
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About this episode

Over the last few months U.S.-China trade relations have been pretty hard to make sense of – unless you look at what’s happening through the lens of game theory. Game theory is all about how decisions are made, based not just on one side’s options and payoffs, but on the choices and incentives of ot