US-China tariff battle fuels questions about Trump’s endgame

While US President Donald Trump's wild customs policy is driving the people of the world's sweating pearls on their foreheads, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has asked itself: Will these really, as the Republican has often praised, bring with it the desired effect? The fear of a global economic crisis is all about, experts predict that enormous burdens are in the house, many jobs are at risk. Basically, although tariffs could favour domestic…

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The struggle between the United States and China for world hegemony has entered unknown territory. During the last decades, the growing pulse between the two powers was framed in a relationship of deep economic interconnection that attenuated the risks of rivalry and in a context of alliances favorable to Washington. Donald Trump's action is radically altering both planes, projecting competition towards another paradigm, amid strong instability …

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump escalated the trade war by imposing “reciprocal” tariffs on multiple countries and just a week later modified them.These abrupt moves broke the balance and unleashed widespread chaos, with abrupt ups and downs in markets. Trump’s tariffs and erratic trajectory have sown chaos in the world economy, causing uncertainty from Wall Street to factories in Asia and Mexico’s industrial plants. This climate of inst…

The big pending question of Donald Trump’s international policy remains the future of the relationship with China. Until his return to the White House, there was a consensus between Republicans and Democrats to prevent the Asian power from achieving global hegemony. In the early years of the new administration, no one knew what could happen to this central issue. Isolationist supporters like J. D. Vance and other spokespersons of the MAGA world …

When Bob Woodward titled Fear his book on Donald Trump’s first government, he sought to synthesize the sentiment that sowed the overwhelming irruption of an amateur into the sensitive apparatus of the state of the world’s first power. Very little of that remarkable report allowed us to see the extent of the fear that six years later has spread throughout the world since the Liberation Day of April 2, with its massive but uneven distribution of v…