by Oui
Wed Apr 9th, 2025 at 08:30:12 AM EST
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Trump threatens China with additional 50% tariffs | BBC News - 8 April 2025 |
Britain cannot afford to gamble on America returning to its senses. We must urgently look elsewhere | The Guardian Opinion |
Ministers are insisting that Trump's regime can still be a friend. It's a delusion and a lie
Whatever Britain's relationship with the US under Donald Trump might be, it should not be called an alliance. That word implies common goals, shared burdens and trust - a cooperative model that is not available from the White House.
Trump's warped concept of reciprocity is encapsulated in his belief that foreigners are guilty of "pillage" when they sell more goods to the US than they buy in return. The punitive levy, applied in proportion to the offending nation's excess exports, is a "reciprocal" tariff in the president's lexicon.
Britain will be charged the baseline rate of 10%. That has been reported as a mercy, attributed by optimistic officials to deft Downing Street diplomacy or, since the EU will pay twice as much, a happy side effect of Brexit.
The morning after ...
The morning after the tariffs were announced, Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, was sticking to the line that "America is a friend; America is our principal ally."
There is a strong impulse to sanitise the actions of the Trump regime in terms that fit existing mental models of American democracy. The message from Downing Street is that the US president is acting according to his mandate. The tariffs might be unwelcome, but they should be understood as a response to voter dissatisfaction with a broken global economy.
That is true in the elementary sense that angry American voters put Trump in the White House, and now he is doing things he promised he would do during the campaign. But if a policy was insane before the election, the unhinged candidate's victory doesn't suddenly make it rational.
US President Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China | BBC News |
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Paul Krugman Details 'Damage Done' by Uncertainty over Tariffs | Bloomberg |
Good Ole Jolly Boris Prophecy
See Boris Johnson's full post-Brexit trade deal speech
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that a long-awaited post-Brexit trade deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union has been reached, just days ahead of the end of the transition period on December 31, 2020.
Predictions from VDL's favorite right-wing propaganda institute ...
The "Special Relationship" and Brexit: The US-UK Alliance in the Trump Era | Hudson Institute -
Peter Rough, Brendan Brown, Samantha Job, and Ted Bromund discuss the future of UK-EU trade negotiations after Brexit and the US-UK relationship (2 March 2017)
EuroTrib archive ... plenty of articles written on topic over the years.
