The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory

May 30, 2025

Emily Blanchard featured in an episode of Planet Money using game theory to understand U.S.-China trade relations.

“I think many of the choices of the administration and the statements of the Trump administration and the president himself kind of suggests to me that he thinks maybe this is a take-it-or-leave-it game,” Blanchard said.

(Planet Money, May 30, 2025)