Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) - David Roche - US Trade and Trump’s Tariffs – Disruption or Design?
President Trump aims to do two things. One is to destroy the liberal world order and ditch the US alliances that constitute it. The second aim is to kill off globalisation and replace it with a nationalist economic model. The major tool to achieve these aims is a unified geo-economic policy which seeks to maximize economic gains. It is the dual targeting of US alliances politically and globalisation economically which makes the Trump 2.0 administration so lethal. RUSI