Chips, Debts and Gaza Bets: Tangled Trade Wars, America’s Gatsby Complex, and Trump’s New Middle East Diplomacy #240

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This week:

• China’s eye-watering trillion-dollar trade surplus signals trouble ahead – why both Washington and Beijing are sleepwalking towards economic catastrophe

• America’s Gatsby complex: How the world’s largest economy became trapped in an unsustainable performance of prosperity.

• The US chips gambit back…