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The more it appeals to tariffs, the stronger the incentive for other countries to reduce their economic and financial dependence on the US and accelerate the fragmentation of an international economic order that has historically served America well,
The self-inflicted supply shock is a strategic gift to Xi Jinping.”
In a series of posts on X, Summers said President Trump continues to demonstrate his commitment to ensuring U.S. trade policy serves the national interest,
Obtaining support from Beijing to stop the flow of illicit fentanyl and its precursor chemicals is an important first step in addressing the supply problem,
The global fentanyl supply chain, which ends with the deaths of Americans, often starts with chemical companies in China,
the then US attorney general Merrick Garland said last year We are nowhere close to robust indictments, robust prosecutions in either the money laundering sector or smuggling of precursors to the Mexican cartels,
With countries with whom China has good relations or with whom it wants to build good relations... it extends law enforcement and counter-narcotics cooperation,
International drug cartels are increasingly turning to specialized Chinese criminal gangs for swift, cheap and secure money laundering services,
wrote Zongyuan Zoe Liu in a September report for the Council on Foreign Relations Canada has been very abusive of the United States for many years. They don't allow our banks,
The timing here is strategically horrible for Trump … [it’s] remarkably unifying for the Canadians.”
US political scientist and Eurasia Group founder Ian Bremmer said in a video on X I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbours are choosing to target us instead of so many other challenging parts of the world,
If they want to play the game, I don’t mind, we can play the game all they want,
It is hard to imagine a better way to increase migration on our southern border than by destabilizing the Mexican economy, as these tariffs set out to do,
And I presume they will retaliate in ways that are designed to maximize our economic pain,
What had appeared to be a commercial and economic crisis has become an eminently political issue,
the newspaper El Universal said Mexico demands RESPECT! after Trump attack”.
An indignant headline in the left-wing paper La Jornada shouted We energetically condemn the accusations that suggest there is a link between our government and narco-trafficking cartels,
Economically, yes, they will, they will feel pain. They will feel what the consequences are, and we'll be able to continue to go forward with the president, who is strong, who is putting America first."
In an interview Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, saying What we have sent a message this week on is that we're not just going to enforce our southern border. We're going to put extra resources at that northern border as well. So Canada needs to come to the table,
Noem said during an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press." It worked the first time when he was in office, we didn't see inflation, we saw wage growth, and we saw more onshoring of jobs back here in the United States,
