Subject: Re: The two-pronged goal of the tariff actions
It's clear that Trump wants to isolate China and start forcing the re-alignment of the Western economies away from their influence. Would you like him to come out and say 'my secret strategy is to screw Xi over'?

Korea and Japan are having talks with China to develop a shared response to US tariffs.


European countries are working on developing an economic future apart from the United States.

So if the administration’s strategy is to isolate China, at this stage, the tariffs seem to be effecting the isolation of the United States.

Not surprising. The tariffs were slapped on with no discernable adherence to any economic formula and administration spokesmen were sending mutually contradictory messages.


One can view such confusion as Trump playing 3D chess, or as simply an indication of this administration’s incoherence.


As the author of this policy is also famous for bankrupting business after business, I’ll bote for the latter interpretation.