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Indepth examinations of global issues, featuring interviews and roundtable discussions. Enemies. Now after meeting with jeanclaude, he says the eu and u. S. Obviously love one another. Seemingly bizarre sbun predictable behavior is part of a canny and wise strategy, that hes playing a fourdimensional chess, operating in space time. If so, hes getting badly beaten here on earth. In none of these situations has he actually been able to extract real concessions and there is a cost to this bluster a...

The most tangible data suggesting that the United States is losing its good reputation comes from The Economist adam poser. He argues that countries are bypassing the United States and constructing a postamerican world economy. You can see this in the flurry of Trade Agreements that dont include the u. S. , from the transpacific partnership, which was signed minus america to the trade deal the European Union just signed with japan and many others that are in the works. The most dramatic indicati...

The scholars calculated that trumps tariffs last year cost american consumers and firms a staggering $68.8 billion a year. america now has the highest tariffs among the g-7, a group of the worlds leading industrialized companies. over time other nations will surely become more protectionist as well. and history suggests once imposed, tariffs are hard to repeal since domestic lobbies that benefit will advocate fiercely for their retention. one example, in 1964, retaliating european tariffs on ame...

Of 1964 remains in place. it is true that china has been something of a trade cheat. though it has been using and manipulating the rules to its benefit, not breaking them. but to put things in perspect e perspective, according to a 2015 tally, the country that imposed the most protectionist measures since 1990 was the united states of america, with three times the number as china. many of trumps demands on china, by the way, have nothing to do with opening up markets. >> were going to give them ...

Liberate the potential of its people. their initiative, their imagination, and their remarkable spirit of enterprise. >> laura: well, how did that work out? sure, the chinese are richer but we have a $375 billion annual trade deficit with china, and the only imagination they brought to the game is in their plotting to steal americas innovation. 18 years after chinas entrance into the wto, even trumps most ardent critics are conceding that basically hes right. >> lets be honest. on one big fundam...

Economy, the more fully it will liberate the potential of its people. their initiative, their imagination, and their remarkable spirit of enterprise. >> laura: well, how did that work out? sure the chinese are richer but we have a $375 billion annual trade deficit with china, and the only imagination they brought to the game is in there plotting to steal americas innovation. 18 years after chinas entrance into the wto, even trumps most ardent critics are conceding that basically hes right. >> le...

A problem and then taking credit for solving a problem they created in the first place? >> you know, sometimes they do this. this this one i do have to give -- i would say that donald trump is right that china has been basically a trade cheat, that the chinese have a very countless view of the world and particularly have this view of trying to get american companies to hand over intellectual property either by stealing it or by forcing them to do it. they dont reciprocate. there is a big problem...

Thats the surprise. the surprise is the united states government has become the pr agency for the saudi regime and for the saudi regime as it has done things that are most decidedly not in americas best interests, not even clear that theyre in saudi arabias best interests. so to me i get why putin is high-fiving. i dont get why trump is high-fiving. lets talk more about the president at the g20 because theres now this 90-day truce between the united states and china on these -- this trade war. b...

But were still early on in this game. >> so rana. >> yes. >> play that out. i certainly agree with steve moore that china is a trade cheat, as ive often said. the question is, is the strategy rate? weve alienated the europeans and the canadians. shouldnt we have brought them all on board and had a collecting position against china? >> in a word, yes. and stephen and i i think agree on this point. a lot of the same complaints that we have about china, the europeans have, the germans have. absolut...

They will make some concessions to the united states which they need to do. and at the end of the day, we may actually end up with freer trade, with lower tariffs and lower trade barriers. but were still early on in this game. >> so rana. >> yes. >> play that out. i certainly agree with steve moore that china is a trade cheat, as ive often said. the question is, is the strategy right? weve alienated the europeans and the canadians. shouldnt we have brought them all on board and had a collective ...