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Trump’s tariffs explained & the new tech cold war

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The New Cold War Is a Data War. Who Knows More?

Trump is hoping for the political kick from China bashing to percolate down to people who were badly affected by globalization. The Chinese need a de-escalation of everything, but it looks as if the Americans are re-escalating via the tech trade war which you see going on now. What is happening is that the new Cold War is largely becoming an information war. Who knows more about whom? It's a data war. It's a cyber war. Now in the old days, espionage was James Bond. It was CIA. Spooks going in and facking pretending they were members of this, that and the other. This is the new James Bond. So consequently the mobile phone

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