Will the U.S. have the last laugh?

History doesn't just echo, it warns. As Washington ramps up tariffs and the world braces for economic whiplash, are we watching a 21st-century rerun of Hoover's Great Depression playbook? From China's counterstrikes to cracks in America's economy, we unpack whether this trade war is strategy or self-sabotage and how it may accelerate the formation of a "post-American" global trade order. Host Tu Yun joins Professor Josef Mahoney, Professor of Politics and International Relations, East China Normal University, Professor Hans-peter Burghof, Chair of the Banking and Finance Department, University of Hohenheim, and Professor Qu Qiang, Fellow, Belt and Road Research Center, Minzu University of China to check for answers to these and more at the Chat Lounge.