SINGAPORE (July 30): Recently, I reread Michael Crichton’s book Rising Sun, written at the height of the US-Japan trade wars in the early 1990s. The themes are eerily similar to the current US narrative about China and the reasons used to justify the unilateral imposition of tariffs on China.

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