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The Trade Wars
“The Trade Wars” is a collection of essential articles on tariffs: from their history to today’s turbulence and effects on U.S.-China relations. How are U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies shaking up the global trade landscape? FP provides the full picture for you to download and read at your leisure. Unlock this collection, along with more hard-hitting geopolitical analysis.
“The Trade Wars” is a collection of essential articles on tariffs: from their history to today’s turbulence and effects on U.S.-China relations. How are U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies shaking up the global trade landscape? Foreign Policy provides the full picture for you to download and read at your leisure.
List of The Trade Wars articles
The Awful History of Tariffs and Depressions
What the 19th century teaches us about what happens next.
Why Is the President, Not Congress, in Charge of Tariffs?
Hint: It has to do with tomatoes.
Trump’s Trade Contradictions Come Home to Roost
The dollar is falling instead of rising—a defiance of tariff theory that shows investors are losing faith in America.
How Countries Should Respond to Trump’s Tariffs
From lying low to outright retaliation, a former U.S. trade negotiator lists out the options available to world leaders.
Why Beijing Is Standing Up to Trump
Chinese leaders have their pride, too.
Why Beijing Thinks It Can Beat Trump
China’s elites have a new confidence in their own system.
Trump’s Tariffs Hit Hard Tech Realities
China’s role in smartphone and chip supply chains is blunting the U.S. president’s ambitions—at least for now.
Tariffs Can Actually Work—if Only Trump Understood How
Smart trade policy could help restore jobs, but the president’s carpet-bomb approach portends disaster.
Trump’s Tariff War Is a Test of American Democracy
Congress has a chance to reassert itself against the president’s power grab.