President Donald Trump has been called a bull in a china shop one million and six times — but what if it’s China’s shop he’s aiming to break? He just might, too.
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Recent history shows that, just like with any other government program, tariffs can produce mixed results at best. But I’m not here today to discuss the merits of tariffs broadly but rather their effect on our most worrisome strategic competitor, Communist China.
(For the record, I’m generally a fan of free trade — at least with friendly nations — but I’m no ideologue. )
I have to get a bit technical here, so bear with me.
Wellington-Altus Chief Market Strategist James Thorne argued on X last night about the bind Trump put China
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