The Trump administration’s tariff war with China is most often seen through the lens of the economy.
But to many economists, the bigger threat is that Trump’s global trade gambit will erode the United States’ main source of global authority: the long-term geopolitical relationships it has cultivated over nearly a century.
Trump argues steep tariffs will bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States from places like China as well as Mexico and Canada.
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