"I passed through the battlefields of Flanders of northern France, and the millions of young men who died there in the First World War after 1914." Yale professor Odd Arne Westad, renowned historian and global Cold War scholar, draws a chilling parallel between today's trade tensions and the economic warfare that triggered World War I. He warns against the "slippery slope" of confrontation, urging for empowering international organizations and diplomacy.