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How Biden’s China Tariffs Could Backfire on Swing-State Workers

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, global trade editor Brendan Murray looks at what could happen if China targeted its retaliation for US tariffs. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

Joe Biden isn’t the only one with the power to weaponize trade policy to sway American voters in an election year. Xi Jinping can, too.