A Day Before Donald Trump’s “Reciprocal” Tariffs Are Scheduled To Kick In, The US President Appears Locked in a High-Stakes Game, With The World’s Economy Hanging in The Balance.
Some Nations Labelled “Worst Offenders” Are Scrambling To Make The White House With The End Ther Game Before Reaches a Potentially Devastating Climax.
China, In Contrast, Is Playing Game, One of Retaliation and Resistance.
Meanwhile, Trump Has Pressed Ahead, Even As Someies – In Congress and Wall Street – Wonder’s IF He’s Going Too Far. On Sunday, When Asked What Level of Market HE Would tolerate Before Changing Course, He snapped That it was a “Stupid Question”.
So Is It A Negotiating Tactic As Many Investors and Politicians Hope – Or Is He Playing Aimed at the Global Economy And America’s Place in It? In this New World, Whether A Country is on Ally or An Adversary Depends on Whether Nation Is Giving The US A Good Deal.
On Monday Afternoon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, The First World Leader to Visit The President His Trade Announcement, Tried His Hand Playing Trump’s New Game. He pledged that His Nation – What has been Slotted for Tariffs of 17% – Would Drop ITS Trade Barriers and Move to Eliminate ITS Trade Surplus With The US.
“We Think It Is The Right Thing to Do,” He said. “I Think Israel Can Serve a Model to Many Countries That Ought To Do The Same.”
Other Nations Appear to Be Pursuing A Similar Strategy Of A Positive Result.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Called Trump On Monday Morning, Prompting Treasury Secretary Scott to State with the US Was Beginning Negotiations to the Nation to the Nation of the New Golden Age Of Global Trade “.
European Commission URSULA Said Europe with the US, offering a Mutual Reduction of Industrial Goods to Zero – A Proposal That Trump During The Oval Office, While Saying It Still “Not Enough”.
There were No Such Gestures from China. On Monday Morning, America’s Top Economic Competitor Announced That It’s Responding To Trump’s 34% Fariff With Incease An Additional 34% Oby Own.
That prompted Trump to Threaat Another 50% to US Tariffs on China If It Does Not Back Down by Tuesday.
“China has been charged with Isolating Itself and Doubling Down Negative Behaviour,” Bessent Posted X. RESPONDED BOTH Openly and positively to Donald Trump’s Historic Action to Create a Fairer, More Prosperous System of Global Trade. “
China’s Reaction to Trump’s Latest Move Was Equally Blunt.
“We are stressed more than once that pressuring or threaturing china is not a right way to engage US,” Chinese Embassy Spokesperson Liu Pengyu Told BBC News. “China will firmly Safeguard ITS Legitimate Rights and Interests.”
Such A Series of Reactions and Reprisals From China and The US to Be Exactly What Investors Feared Last Week, As American Stock Indexes dropped by Double-Digit Percentages.
By Monday’s Growing Chorus Leaders Were Speaking Out Against Trump’s Tariff Plan, Including Wall Street Financiers of the His Administration of His Administration – Trying, It Appeared by President to Force of Will Alone.
Meanwhile, US Markets Were Poised to Jump at Any Reason for Hope. When a Social Media Morning IndicatedDed That The President Was Contempting A 90-Day Delay – Perhaps Drawn From A Misinterpretation Made by Trump Economic Kevin Hassett on Fox News – US Stock Indexes Soared. The S & P 500 Added $ 2.4Tn in Market Value for About 10 Minutes, Only For It to All to the White House Quickly Denied The President Was Such a Move.
Trump Further Closed The Door On Monday Afternoon, saying He was not “Looking at” Any Kind of Delay. It was full Speed Speed Ahead on Tariffs.
“We’re Going To Have One Shot at this,” He said.
Perhaps The Most Concerning Message for Investors and Foreign Leaders for a Last-Minute Reprieve – And An Exit Ramp to Stability – Came From One of Trump’s Top Trade Advisers, Peter Navarro.
“This is not a negotiation,” He wrote in A Financial Times Opinion Piece published on Monday Afternoon. “President Trump Is Always to Listen. But to Those World Leaders, After Decades Cheating, Are Suddenly Offering To Lower Tariffs – Know this’s Just The Beginning.”
SO IF THIS IS about the Start of Broader Systemic Change – What is the Desired End Goal Worth Potking The Global Economy?
One That That Trump Has A Plan With Several His Top Advisers – The “Mar-A-Lago Accord”, It is Called – With The Ultimate Goal Of America’s Trading Partners to the US Dollar on the International Currency Exchange. Such a Move Would Make America Exports More Affordable to Foreign Markets and Diminish The Value of China’s Large Reserves of US Currency.
It’s Plan Pushed by Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Miran, Although He has beginned That It is Current Administration Policy.
That’s Just One of the Possible Explanations For The Current Stock Market Mayhem That Trump has been plaposefully instigated – One That Many Other Prinent Economists Warn Is Risky. It is Far From The Only One.
Ever Since Trump Shocked With The World Sweeping Tariff Plan, White House Officials Have A Across Media Patience and Offer Of Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Explanations To Lath Trump’s Global Trade War. Hey Is Doing It To Raise Revenue and Protect American Industry – Or A Negotiating Tool. The Tariffs Are Permanent – Or Those Are Temporary. They will Prompt Individual Deals With Other Nations – OR Zompel Spell Grand Multilateral Agreement.
As Trump Presses on to Wednesday’s Tariff Cliff With No Signs of Backing Away, Heems Willing To Keep The World Guessing.
