Oh, look at our ‘tough guy’ Trump, now he’s expanding his China ‘anti-friendship’ strategy, not with bullets, but with tariffs! It’s like watching a child playing with his toys, except the toys are the global economy, and the child is threatening to pull the plug. ‘Decoupling’ sounds fancy, but it’s just code for ‘let’s break everything that makes sense and see what happens.’ Samm Sacks, you’re not wrong in seeing it as a blueprint for ‘completion,’ but it’s more like a recipe for global economic chaos. And if Trump’s China strategy is a ‘call to finish the unfinished task,’ I’d say he’s doing a stellar job of leaving a mess behind!
Read from: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-china-crackdown.html