In the first State of the Union address, George Washington wrote “to be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” It’s fair to assume that the first American president probably wasn’t thinking about how to position a global technology stock portfolio to limit risk amid increasingly rancorous exchanges on trade between one of his successors and his Chinese counterpart. Candidate Donald Trump never hid his view that international trade agreements are bad deals for the U.S., and one of his first acts as president was to pull the country out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. That was the cue to begin preparing for war.via