It would require a significant escalation from the measures seen so far for a trade war to be the trigger of the next global downturn. The bigger risks at this stage are that lower-level skirmishes over trade cause problems for individual economies (particularly EMs) or that a general rise in trade protection interacts with other headwinds that are building to exacerbate a slowdown that is already in the works.
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