The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariff ultimatum: tribute for access to America’s empire | Editorial
WDenald Trump stood up before Union car workers Declared in the garden of roses “Editing DayAnd he promised to defend the main street. If this pledge will be achieved, it will declare victory in both cases. What the American president presented was not just an economic program, but an imperial.
Trump’s logic, if exist, lies in 397 pages a report On the “foreign trade barriers” that he summarized on Wednesday. Her message brutally basicYou can sell your goods to walmart shopping, but only if you allow us to increase the cloud services in increasing your data, the American media overwhelms your screens and American technology monopolies work on their conditions – not for you. Tikhak It is the test of the Trump platform nationality: only American companies that may compensate for data, earn profits and rule the digital empire.
One week Warning and Correct national emergency Put naked in the leadership of Mr. Trump’s agenda. The proposed tariff for the American president and economic nationalism is not related to the correction of commercial imbalances; They revolve around the coercion of others to accept American economic domination – without asking the United States to sacrifice its local advantage.
The United States continues to operate the goods deficit not because it “borrows” from abroad, but because the rest of the world exchanges real goods in good mind for dollars that cannot be issued. Mr. Trump demands this privilege: Control On digital infrastructure, forced access to high -tech tenant and suppress competing technologies. the RealPolitik It is that you can sell to American consumers – but only if you buy American bases, platforms and financial consequences. Although Mr. Trump’s foreign policy is transactions, its domestic effect may be transformative – not in a good way. A raising tariff Prices For everyone, especially the poor, while protecting local producers from competition. At the same time, as Mr. Trump explained, revenues are not for public investment or industrial policy, but to Tax discounts That benefits the wealthy. In this system, the redistribution of customs duties up: the poor pay more, so it pays less billionaires.
This is not a lot of anti -skin like post -insulation. He does not seek to withdraw from the world, but it is a world subject to new conditions. The United States Empire still earns – but it now requires more and spends less. External aid I cut off The multilateral bases are replaced by the bilateral bargains that were rapidly struck. If allies want to trade, they must also license Google Cloud services, buy Jets Boeing and resist Chinese influence. Trade, technology and security are assembled in a single foreign policy that seeks to search for rent.
Markets, however, are less convinced – and their continuation crash Not only reflects the recession fears, but also admits that this model is not a one -quarter modification. that it model It turns. Pain, even Mr. Trump admits, may be real. But for him, the pain is prepared. It prevents employment, justifies austerity and restores the economy in the form of the deal.
China Revenge Definitions raise the possibility of a dangerous trade war. But Beijing indicates that if he cannot win the US -led system, he will build it. For other major economies, including UKThe task is not to repeat the American leverage, but to reduce dependence on it-by deepening regional integration, investing in technological independence and limiting exposure to the US-controlled selection points in financing, technology and defense. The resistance may spark revenge, but submission guarantees dependency. In the long run, strategic cooperation – not bilateral concession – is the only solid answer to identification imperialism.
