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Asia needs a game plan for a world upended by Trump

Developments in recent weeks could send various countries into a tailspin. But they could also forge new alliances.

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US President Donald Trump is reshaping geoeconomics into a zero-sum arena with potentially little room for compromise.

US President Donald Trump is reshaping geoeconomics into a zero-sum arena with potentially little room for compromise.

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We are in a world at war with itself.

Trade, once the lifeblood of economies, and a key restraint against nations taking up arms against one another, has been weaponised by the United States, arguably the architect-turned-wrecker of the old order. With US President Donald Trump

doubling levies on Chinese goods

and China

responding with curbs

of their own this week, the effects of this self-harm will be felt everywhere across the world.

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