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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Dexawlba felt that she’d finally perfected the chimichurri Twinkies that she hoped would be a hit at the full-contact pinochle tournament.
Beltway Tariff Theater continues to dominate the news. There is plenty of other stuff going on, but none of it is as gripping as watching President Trump continue to do president stuff that we’re not familiar with, especially the whole “carry out campaign promises” thing. As I’ve written a few times in the last week, Trump did talk about tariffs during the campaign and wasted no time prepping the public for them after he was inaugurated in January.
The saga took another dizzying turn on Wednesday, which Matt wrote about:
In a major escalation of his administration’s trade policy, President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a dramatic increase in tariffs on Chinese imports, citing what he called China’s “lack of respect” for global markets. The president declared the new tariff rate would rise to 125%, effective immediately.
“Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets,” Trump announced on Truth Social, “I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately.”
At the same time, President Trump also announced a pause on the tariffs for the countries who have shown interest in negotiating equitable trade with the United States. The trade war bullseye was thus firmly fixed on the ChiComs. Anyone who’s been paying attention knew that we were going to get to this point sooner or later.
China is the danger lurking around every corner — especially the military and economic corners — for all of the free world. Conflict was inevitable and, personally, I think that launching a war with tariffs is better than waiting for Xi and Company to kick one off with bombs.
My friend Stephen Green took a deep dive into how these tariffs might affect the ChiComs, noting that Trump’s “primary goal all along was isolating China from global markets to the greatest possible degree.”
I still don’t know much about international trade, but I have been aware for many years that the world needed a leader who would stand up to China in some way. Any way. China has managed to lull everyone into an almost chronic state of complacency. Mustn’t rock the boat if we want to buy our running shoes and iPhones at reasonable prices. That’s not a snarky remark, by the way — those are the two things I’ve seen mentioned most on social media and by the mainstream media Trump-haters when talking about the potential pain of tariffs.
The enemy of my enemy is never an American liberal.
Nobody can be certain how all of this will play out. All I know is that having a president who can identify and articulate problems with China, then try to do something about them, is a very, very good thing.
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