Escalation
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President Donald Trump’s threat on April 5 to impose tariffs on an additional $100 billion of Chinese exports, provoked by China’s response to his own earlier action, points to just this threat of
escalation.
Doing more would have been seen as a dangerous
escalation.
Because China has a higher export-to-GDP ratio than the US, they are more concerned with preserving the global trading system; by eschewing escalation, China avoids jeopardizing it.
While trade friction has long been an issue in the Sino-American relationship, few expected such an escalation, not least because economists widely view trade wars as damaging to all parties.
This is partly because the strategy – while bearing all the hallmarks of modern Chinese brinkmanship, including reliance on stealth, surprise, and a disregard for the risks of military
escalation
– seeks to ensure that the initiative remains with China.
Given these unresolved questions and the
escalation
of the hegemonic conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, the next chapter in the region’s history promises to be anything but peaceful.
Add to that MBS’s ham-fisted political purge, and the
escalation
in Lebanon may be viewed as a desperate gambit.
None of this bodes well for Europe, which will be directly affected by an
escalation
of tensions in the region, owing to its geographic proximity and historic obligations to Israel.
The mystery is why the economic and financial fallout from this
escalation
has been so limited.
But the opposite outcome – the
escalation
of mutually damaging trade and investment disputes – is also a distinct possibility.
Ironically, the
escalation
of US and Saudi rhetoric came just two days after Iran’s May 19 election, in which moderates led by incumbent President Hassan Rouhani defeated their hardline opponents at the ballot box.
The
escalation
of warfare and sectarian violence, which are becoming chronic, endanger both Turkey and Europe.
US Vice President Joseph Biden has put counterattacks against Russian computer networks on the table, but that could trigger an escalation, while ceding the moral high ground.
Nuclear terrorism, a slowdown in China, or a sharp
escalation
of violence in the Middle East could all blow the lid off the current economic dynamic.
Would an
escalation
on the Korean Peninsula be an opportunity to “buy the dip,” or would it mark the beginning of a massive market meltdown?
Otherwise, a rapid
escalation
of yields in the bond market might be necessary for the public to accept that there is a problem, and for politicians to have the room to resolve it.
In the latest
escalation
of the trade dispute, the US imposed levies on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports.
That shock could be homegrown, coming in the form, say, of renewed inflation or of the continued
escalation
of the trade war that US President Donald Trump has started.
This
escalation
will, of course, be driven largely by the increasingly frequent and intense weather events associated with higher global temperatures.
After all, the recent military
escalation
in the region is at least partly due to that strategy.
It is less clear whether Russia would be interested in such a dialogue, though the Kremlin should want to mitigate the risk of unintended military
escalation.
This will lead to a further
escalation
of Western sanctions: restrictions on gas exports, general export restrictions, suspension from the World Trade Organization, withdrawal of the FIFA 2018 World Cup soccer tournament, and so on.
Such “inadvertent escalation” can stem from a pattern of imprudent operational behavior, for example, or from persistent strategic miscalculation.
Deterrence, however, carries significant
escalation
risks.
More than 40 countries now have some sort of military-intelligence cyber capability, and with the proliferation of offensive cyber capabilities, inadvertent
escalation
will become increasingly likely.
No one – except, perhaps, Iran – has anything to gain from further
escalation.
The alternative – further
escalation
of the Asian arms race – is in no one’s interest.
The risk of a major interstate war may still be remote, but for the first time since the end of the Cold War the
escalation
of violence between major powers cannot be dismissed as an unrealistic nightmare.
And, while hope for a solution was dim, the risk of
escalation
remained low; thus, as security concerns flared up elsewhere, the 40-year-old conflict largely disappeared from the international agenda.
Nuclear weapons changed everything, with the resulting balance of terror preventing the Cold War’s
escalation
(despite several near-misses, most notably the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis).
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