POLICY COMPASS

Juxtaposition: America First While America Disrupts

A Geopolitical and Macroeconomic Analysis of Ambiguity & Arbitration in the Trump Tariffs

By Tiana Peterson

1 April 2025

In this paper we discuss:

  • What we can decipher from Trump's language on tariffs;
  • America's economic warfare versus the rest of the world;
  • The end of history: the West versus The West; and
  • Why, regardless of what the West does, China wins.

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