Perhaps the game Trump was playing wasn’t the ‘Chicken Game,’ but rather the ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma,’ with America acting as the prison warden who designed the game itself.

If the Nash equilibrium is that both prisoners (China vs. other countries) end up ‘confessing’ or accepting the punishment (like tariffs) that the warden (America) imposes, then the true winner is the warden—America—while the rest of the world loses, as they turn on each other to minimize individual losses.

Because in the Chicken Game, the equilibrium outcome—where one side yields—would be too risky for America

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