Possible deeper purpose to those tariffs?


US President Donald Trump did not blink when he pronounced a 90-day hold (for all countries bar China) on April 9 on the “reciprocal tariffs” he had previously announced. Contrary to what international media has supposed, I believe this decision was not a backtrack in the face of stock market meltdowns. It was a reprieve for Corporate America, which, more desperately than ­foreign governments, have lined up to pay court to Trump and beg his mercy.

Could Trump’s ridiculously high tariffs not only aim to start a trade war with China but also serve an internal purpose?

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