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The US-China trade dispute may be entering a dangerous new phase: currency warfare.

The US-China trade war has been going on for almost two years now. Both countries have imposed hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tariffs on each other, and that number has only been growing. Right now, we may be entering a new, potentially dangerous, phase of the dispute: currency warfare.

Also, we鈥檒l take a look at real life consequences that the US-China trade war is already having, both for small businesses and for Chinese-Americans who are now experiencing unwanted scrutiny; and we鈥檒l also explore China鈥檚 so called social credit system, and why it鈥檚 been mostly misunderstood in the West.

(An aerial view of a port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province. Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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