Yahoo Finance W(hy)TF are Japan and South Korea in a trade war?
No, like any Ice Bucket Challenge-worthy meme, others are getting in on the trade war bandwagon and making it their own. The two countries have slipped into their own trade war over the past few weeks, a conflict that now threatens the foundations of Japan’s supplier industry, Samsung Electronics, and global smartphone and computer shipments. If the U.S./China trade war emanates from the dark recesses of President Trump’s brain, then this new trade war emanates from the dark chapters of Japan and South Korea’s collective and sad history.
