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Asian nations should worry as Trump tariffs strike at the ‘Dirty 15’
How the US decides who gets on the hit list is a matter of great uncertainty. Tariffs alone are not the sole determinant.
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Chinese shipping containers in Los Angeles. There’s a good chance that China, particularly, would feature on the “Dirty 15” list.
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In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, which captures the existential disillusionment of the Lost Generation, hard-drinking war veteran Mike Campbell responds to a question about how he got into the financial mess he was in: “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
You could say that’s pretty much how the world got into the situation it will face this week, when the threatened round of Trump tariffs are announced.
