Trade wars pose "worrisome" threat to world economy: BoE's Kohn

LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The escalation of trade conflict
between the United States and China is "very worrisome" for the
global outlook and it remains to be seen if it will tip the
world economy into recession, Bank of England policymaker Donald
Kohn said on Tuesday.

"Whether that is strong enough to put the whole world into
recession or not, who knows, but it's bad," said Kohn, a former
vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System.

"There are several dimensions in which I think this
breaking, this beginning of fragmentation of the global trading
system is very worrisome," he told a panel of British lawmakers.
(Reporting by David Milliken and Huw Jones, additional
reporting by Estelle Shirbon, writing by Andy Bruce)