If, like me, you’ve fallen into the habit of obsessively checking the newest (and the newest and the newest) updates on the U.S.-China trade war, you’ll also be familiar with the weird candy/poison hit of a major trade war data-point dropping. In my case this morning, it was the news that at least one Boeing passenger plane has been sent back to the U.S. from a finishing plant in China, following a halt on dealings with the firm from the Chinese government.

I say candy/poison because I’m pretty sure the non-stop drip feed of trade war news is rotting my insides. Beyond the general impact of absorbing numerous hits of bad news every day (oh, those New York Times phone notifications…yeesh), too much focus on the trade war tends to put a simplistic bipolar U.S.-versus-China lens on a global reality becoming more complex and multipolar by the day.