Tech superiority won't help the US win a trade war

Taipei

MY father's words still ring loud a couple of decades later.

"No one wins a war." We were talking about military conflicts, yet those same five words are just as true for a trade war. US President Donald Trump clearly has other ideas.

"Easy to win," he says!

One has to wonder how the US will prevail in a trade conflict with China when its own companies have the most to lose, notably in the technology sector.

Electronics is one of the largest slices of US-China trade. Apple Inc's iPhones are already made in China, by a Taiwanese company, so slapping on impor…