“Our strategy on tariffs will be to shoot first and ask questions later.” That was what one of Donald Trump’s key economic policymakers told me late last year.
That kind of macho swagger is fashionable in Washington. But the US president’s shoot-from-the-hip tactics are profoundly dangerous – for America itself, as well as the countries he has targeted with tariffs.
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Gideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.
