It is ironic that China bans importing US scrap steel as a trade war tactic, but the Japanese went to war in no small part because the US banned scrap metal and oil imports to Japan.
Some claim it was Roosevelt’s prodding in such trade wars that induced Japan into WWII against the US, which Churchill and Roosevelt wanted so they could fight Germany.
They only needed Germany to declare war on the US first, prodded by Japan and by the North Atlantic convoy schemes and provocations. Hitler fell for it.
>>>It is ironic that China bans importing US scrap steel as a trade war tactic
This was not a trade war tactic. China simply decided it no longer wanted to be the world’s dumping ground.