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The Canadian Prime Minister’s timing couldn’t have been much worse
Some countries have yielded, but others are clearly holding out, and may well make the calculation that the US has more to lose than they do
With Trump’s international agenda, scratch beneath the hilariously crazy surface and you find a more serious campaign to isolate China, China, China
As America settles its trade disagreements with the rest of the world, it is Xi Jinping who now most needs the tariff pause to continue
It is easy to admire Trump’s negotiating tactics. But that doesn’t mean that the US will end up being the big winner from higher import tariffs
While the President can make good on his promise to hike tariffs, he cannot make other countries shoulder the tax bill
While he couldn’t help but rub in the terms of the Columbia settlement, Trump also had some positive reflections to share
Trump will be able to claim a negotiating success. But that doesn’t mean Americans will be better off for it
To be fair to Ishiba, he appears to have done what he could
