特朗普贸易大棒对准中国军工复合体 (follow-up)

choi

On June 22, 2018 I published a posting titled 特朗普贸易大棒对准中国军工复合体. At the time, the daily Telegraph column was locked behind pay wall (I did try other places in the Web in vain). But news outlets have paid to republish it, one of which is

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Trump's Lack of Strategic Wisdom May Spark an All-Out Economic War. Sydney Morning Herald, June 21, 2018.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/ ... 0180621-p4zmrm.html

Note:
(a) But it does focus thought on what can happen when a muscular arriviste disturbs a status quo equilibrium.

arriste (n; Did You know?)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arriviste
(b) "The great and the good of the Asia Society * * * issued a blistering report last year on China's behaviour."

the great and the good: "PHRASE BRITISH HUMOROUS people who are important and respected"
https://www.macmillandictionary. ... -great-and-the-good
(c) "He [Trump] has a childlike idée fixe on China's $US375 billion trade surplus with the US."
(i) idée fixe (n; Did You Know?; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/id%C3%A9e%20fixe
(ii) French-English dictionary:
* idée (noun feminine; from Ancient Greek [noun feminine] idéa notion, pattern): "idea"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idée
* fixe (adj; from Latin participle fixus fixed): "fixed"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fixe