贸易战一触即发

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(1) Alan Beattie, A Heated Exchange; Sinp-American trade relations; For all the White House claims that its flexible approach is curbing China's currency and trade interventions, renewed economic weakness will increase fears of an all-out trade war. Financial Times, Dec 5, 2011.

Paragraph 2: If the American economy stalls and unemployment remains high as the US heads into an election year, Capitol Hill's patience is likely to wear thin, and fears of an all-out trade war will rise.

Excerpt in the window of print: 'Once the potential for litigation is raised, there a 50 per cent record of China taking an action to comply'

My comment:
(a) The entire paragraph is this: "Once the potential for litigation is raised, there a 50 per cent record of China taking an action to comply with its obligations before it actually goes through the dispute settlement process," says Tim Reif, general counsel at theUS trade representative's office.
(b) There is no need to read the text.

(2) By nature Finanacial Times (like Wall Street Jourmal and Economist) are conservative, as traders are--in and out of Wall Street.

So Voice of America may not be sensational when the titles of its reports uses 一触即发 a couple of times recently.

(a) 杜林, 美国初裁认可'双反'调查，美中光伏大战一触即发. VOA Chinese, Dec 3, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... anel-134966033.html
(星期五 "美国国际贸易委员会认定中国太阳能电池对美国相关产业构成实质性损害后，中国商务部批评这是美国贸易保护主义的表现。商务部已决定对美国同类产品展开贸易壁垒调查，两国光伏贸易大战一触即发。* * * 这项初裁为美国商务部展开同类调查铺平了道路")
(b) 杜林, 太阳能电池'双反'调查 美中光伏贸易战一触即发. VOA Chinese, Nov 12, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... -war-133746173.html
(c) 雨舟, 贸易战一触即发20国财长急谋对策. VOA Chinese, Oct 22, 2010
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... ount-105525828.html
(全球20个最大经济体的财长和央行行长们今天开始在韩国庆州会晤)


------------------------Separately
中国银行加入收购萨博行列. BBC Chinese, Dec 5, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... 05_saab_china.shtml
("据中国媒体引述知情人说，根据新的协议，接替中国庞大汽车集团进行收购行动的中国银行和浙江青年莲花对萨博的股权持有率将不会超过50%。分析人士认为，此举可能会为获得美国通用公司的赞同铺平道路。仍然拥有萨博优先股权的通用公司早些时候拒绝了青年莲花和庞大集团收购萨博股权的计划")