Posen

That’s the view of Adam S. Posen, an expert on international trade who is president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

“The U.S. economy will suffer enormously in a large-scale trade war with China,” Posen wrote Wednesday.

The truth is exactly the reverse, Posen wrote, and not merely because the U.S. actually exports to China more like two-fifths of what China exports to the U.S.

By shutting down imports from China, Posen observes, “the United States will face shortages of critical inputs ranging from basic ingredients of most pharmaceuticals to inexpensive semiconductors used in cars and home appliances to critical minerals for industrial processes including weapons production.”

At school, she met designer Zac Posen and became an early muse.