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    In focus

    Methodology

    How we report

    How TradeWar chooses, checks and writes its stories, and how we handle sources, photos, updates and corrections.

    What counts as a TradeWar story

    We cover real trade conflicts with identifiable sides: two or more countries, a government and a named company, or two companies. Each story is filed under one conflict type and one or more of 20 industries. We do not cover celebrity or catwalk gossip unless there is a legal or commercial dispute behind it.

    Sources

    • Every story is based on public reporting, court records, regulatory decisions or official statements.
    • We take facts only from sources we have actually read. If a page is paywalled or unavailable, we use another outlet that covers the same event, or we leave the fact out.
    • Each article lists its sources, with headline, publisher and date, and links to them.
    • When sources disagree, we say so and give both figures. When something is reported but not confirmed, we write “according to…” or “not confirmed”.
    • We do not invent quotes, outcomes or reactions. If an outcome is not yet known, it goes under “What to watch”.

    Who writes our stories

    Some articles are written entirely by our editors. Others are written with AI assistance and checked by editors. Either way, the same rules apply: every fact must come from a listed source, and an editor reviews the article before it is published.

    Our own words

    We do not copy text from other publications or stitch together paraphrases. Direct quotes are short, rare and attributed. The highlighted pull quote in each article is TradeWar’s own analysis, not a quotation from anyone in the story.

    Analysis and opinion

    Where we interpret the facts, for example why a company may have made a decision or what a ruling could mean, we make it clear that this is our reading, not a reported fact.

    Dates, updates and corrections

    • Each article shows the date it was published and, if changed, the date it was updated.
    • Significant new developments are added in a clearly marked “Update” section with its own date, and the timeline and sources are updated too.
    • If we get something wrong, we correct it and note the correction in the article.

    Photos

    • We use photos with free licences, mainly from Wikimedia Commons: public domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA.
    • We credit the author and licence under every photo and link to the original.
    • Captions describe what the photo actually shows. If a photo shows a similar place or product rather than the event itself, the caption says so.

    Dossiers

    Dossiers are background pieces on long-running disputes, such as Apple vs Samsung. They are not dated news, so they do not appear under “Latest developments” on the home page or in the tracker.

    The Trade Conflict Tracker

    The tracker lists every news story on the site. Conflict type and industry come from how each story is filed. The country filter shows the countries involved in each dispute: the states on each side, the regulator and the company’s home country, or the companies’ home countries and the court’s.