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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 and flip flopping. Trump is creating a reputation for the United States as erratic, unpredictable, un...

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 indication of the world side stepping the u. S. , he says, is the decline in Foreign Investment in america. ...

The scholars calculated that trump's 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 world's 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 american chickens, the u.s. placed a 25% tariff on trucks. the chicken tax was long ago repealed, but...

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 trump's demands on china, by the way, have nothing to do with opening up markets. >> we're going to give them lists of things we would like them to buy. >> they are shopping lists presented to beijing for goo...

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 america's innovation. 18 years after china's entrance into the wto, even trump's most ardent critics are conceding that basically he's right. >> let's be honest. on one big fundamental point, donald trump is right. china is a trade cheat. the u.s. trade representatives that...