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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /479/ El Tarifazo: Trump's Tariff Thwack ft. Lee Jones
Description: On Trump's 'liberation day' tariffs and the end of globalisation.
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Contributing editor Lee Jones talks to Alex about the tariffs, as they try to reconstruct the Trump admin's thinking, and consider avenues and consequences.
Why is this a retro-80s moment, and how much does China take the role that Japan used to in Trump's thinking?
How much strategy is there to this? Is it possible to disentangle the competing logics?
Is this a return to the 19th century: small s...