The world is moving on to trade without the US
https://www.ft.com/content/07eac548-6607-4c88-bfe3-4f1d6e3b8cf2
Many nations have been responding to Trump tariffs not by retaliating but by courting other trade partners
Trump’s new economic war
https://www.ft.com/content/f5006dab-8d12-4dbd-b053-3e3c70eb028c
Some caution against being awestruck by Trump’s threats or his espousal of capitalism without limits, because his agenda was so incoherent.
“What we are seeing is huge doses of American hubris,” says Arancha González, dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po. “We are blinded by the intensity of all the issues put on the table and by Trump’s conviction. But we are not looking at the contradictions. It’s like we are all on an orange drug.”
https://www.ft.com/content/07eac548-6607-4c88-bfe3-4f1d6e3b8cf2
Many nations have been responding to Trump tariffs not by retaliating but by courting other trade partners
https://www.ft.com/content/f5006dab-8d12-4dbd-b053-3e3c70eb028c
Some caution against being awestruck by Trump’s threats or his espousal of capitalism without limits, because his agenda was so incoherent.
“What we are seeing is huge doses of American hubris,” says Arancha González, dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po. “We are blinded by the intensity of all the issues put on the table and by Trump’s conviction. But we are not looking at the contradictions. It’s like we are all on an orange drug.”
What the global south gets wrong about Trump
https://www.ft.com/content/51e4c1a6-ef17-4e14-bea3-645e611008a3
Gideon Rachman:
Westerners may be shocked to see a US president talk like a mafia boss who wants more protection money. But many in the global south have always believed that American leaders act like mobsters — even if they talk like missionaries. At least, they say, Trump has now dropped the infuriating moralising. The hope is that a less hypocritical US will be easier to deal with, because it will not make unrealistic demands based on irrelevant western values.
But we are beginning to see what a US that proudly proclaims it has no altruistic interest in the outside world looks like — and it is not pretty.
https://www.ft.com/content/51e4c1a6-ef17-4e14-bea3-645e611008a3
Gideon Rachman:
Westerners may be shocked to see a US president talk like a mafia boss who wants more protection money. But many in the global south have always believed that American leaders act like mobsters — even if they talk like missionaries. At least, they say, Trump has now dropped the infuriating moralising. The hope is that a less hypocritical US will be easier to deal with, because it will not make unrealistic demands based on irrelevant western values.
But we are beginning to see what a US that proudly proclaims it has no altruistic interest in the outside world looks like — and it is not pretty.