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Conrad Black: Trump’s Tariff Policy Is in Part a Containment Strategy to Deal With the China Threat

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Conrad Black: Trump’s Tariff Policy Is in Part a Containment Strategy to Deal With the China Threat
Shipping cranes by a Chinese manufacturer stand at the Port of Oakland in California on March 8, 2024. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Conrad Black
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Evaluating President Trump’s tariff policy involves examining it from two different perspectives: completing the shift from post-Cold War containment of the Soviet Union to addressing the next challenge, from China, and the assurance that Trump is sincere in his desire to negotiate new fair-trading arrangements to effectively eliminate America’s anachronistic trade deficit.
Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Author
Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.