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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:<p>"While other Trump deals are happening in Serbia, Indonesia and the Middle East, Vietnam has become a case study for how the Trump brand wields influence and gains advantage, challenging local norms and encouraging leaders to rush approvals, to please the Trump family."</p><p>The amount of deal-making for personal benefit by the President is unprecedented. Who will hold him accountable? </p><p>🎁: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/asia/trump-vietnam-golf-project.html?smid=nytcore-android-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/a</span><span class="invisible">sia/trump-vietnam-golf-project.html?smid=nytcore-android-share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/industry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>industry</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/land" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>land</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Since the Seventies, America’s deficits have provided East Asia (first Japan, then China) and Europe (primarily Germany) the demand for their factories’ manufactures. In return, the European Union, Japan and later China sent their accumulated profits to Wall Street to be recycled into US private and public debt, some equities, and real estate. A Chinese official once described this mechanism to me as a “dark deal”. “Our Dark Deal with the Americans,” the official explained, “turns on the US trade deficit, which keeps demand for our manufactures high. In return, our capitalists invest the bulk of their dollar superprofits into America’s FIRE”. (The acronym stands for “Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.”) “Once this process got underway, America shifted much of its industrial production to our shores.”</p><p>The problem with this global recycling mechanism was that, to function smoothly, it had to generate larger and larger imbalances: greater trade deficits for the US and more accumulated savings for Northern Europe and East Asia. But there are limits to how large imbalances can grow. Ruptures are inevitable. The longer they are delayed, the greater the pain they inflict — a truth that centrists never acknowledged, not even when it was tearing down their houses.</p><p>Trump’s greatest strength comes from asking the pressing question that the centrists refuse to countenance: what comes after the Dark Deal? What comes after the imbalances built on the US trade deficit have proven unsustainably massive? Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, put it succinctly in a recent speech at the IMF: “Everywhere we look across the international economic system today, we see imbalance… This status quo of large and persistent imbalances is not sustainable… The persistent over-reliance on the United States for demand is resulting in an evermore unbalanced global economy.”"</p><p><a href="https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-centrist-comeback-wont-last/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unherd.com/2025/05/the-centris</span><span class="invisible">t-comeback-wont-last/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Centrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Centrism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TradeDeficit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeDeficit</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicDebt</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Lol, Contrarian Kemi at it again!</p><p>Starmer's secret weapon against the Tories, their own feckless leader. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KemiBadenoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KemiBadenoch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GlobalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalEconomy</span></a> already feeling drag from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariffs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> are increasingly clogging up the wheels of a world <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> which for decades were greased by predictable &amp; relatively <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a>.</p><p>Big-name multinationals right down to niche e-commerce players last week cut sales targets, warned of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>job</span></a> cuts &amp; reviewed their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> plans, while major economies revised down growth prospects amid bleak data read-outs.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trumpcession</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-economy-already-feeling-drag-trump-tariffs-2025-05-05/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/china/global</span><span class="invisible">-economy-already-feeling-drag-trump-tariffs-2025-05-05/</span></a></p>
Easily Pleased<p>…countries passed IP laws to protect US tech interests in exchange for tariff-free access to US markets. …[now we have] a generational opportunity to pass laws that enable local technologists to jailbreak US tech exports and liberate their people from the extractive practices of Big Tech forever. </p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its</span><span class="invisible">-not-the-crime/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cory_doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cory_doctorow</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/unexpectedupside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unexpectedupside</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>Britain and the European Union are about to sign a formal commitment to “free and open trade” in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plans. Read more from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@politico" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>politico</span></a></span><br><a href="https://flip.it/1Z5Kgf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/1Z5Kgf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In Finland, manufacturing accounted for 24 percent of GDP. By 1991, it had declined to 17. In Sweden, manufacturing as a share of GDP declined from 21 to 16 percent during the same period. But by the early 2000, Finland brought its manufacturing share of GDP back up to 24 percent, and Sweden raised its manufacturing share of GDP to 20 percent.</p><p>The same trend can be observed in Singapore. Singapore experienced quite a significant decline in manufacturing in the mid-1980s, from 27 percent to 20 percent. But by the mid-2000s, it had recovered back to 27 percent. By the way, Singapore, despite what people think, is one of the most industrialized countries in the world: in terms of per capita manufacturing output, it ranks in the top five globally. There’s an interesting myth about it being a service economy.</p><p>The most industrialized country in the world is Switzerland. You think that the Swiss are dealing in the black money from Third World dictators and selling cow bells and cuckoo clocks to American and Japanese tourists. Actually, it is literally the most industrialized country in the world, if you count in terms of manufacturing output per person.</p><p>These countries have managed to revive their manufacturing industry, and since then they have declined a bit. But the lesson here is that these countries could do that only because they had a deliberate policy to revive manufacturing. What Donald Trump is trying to do is wishful thinking. Countries that have successfully increased their manufacturing output have deliberate policies to support manufacturing. In the Swedish and Finnish case, it also extended to retraining the workers made redundant because of the decline in traditional manufacturing sectors and then turning them into workers for new industries."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/tariffs-protectionism-manufacturing-industrial-policy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/04/tariffs-pr</span><span class="invisible">otectionism-manufacturing-industrial-policy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Reindustrialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reindustrialization</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Automation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Protectionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protectionism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IndutrialPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndutrialPolicy</span></a></p>
Alo Japan<p><a href="https://www.alojapan.com/1252355/not-appropriate-to-discuss-security-trade-together-with-us-japanese-pm/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alojapan.com/1252355/not-appro</span><span class="invisible">priate-to-discuss-security-trade-together-with-us-japanese-pm/</span></a> Not appropriate to discuss security &amp; trade together with US: Japanese PM <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapanNews</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapanUSRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapanUSRelations</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapaneseNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseNews</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ShigeruIshiba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShigeruIshiba</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TradeNegotiations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeNegotiations</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/USTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USTariffs</span></a> Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday that it would not be appropriate to discuss security and trade together with the US. “I don’t think it is appropriate to discuss security and trade together. We should address security issues…</p>
David Thomas Jackson<p>Chris Riddell on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a>, the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EasterBunny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EasterBunny</span></a> who came to break all the eggs - cartoon in The Observer, 20th April 2025.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> is smashed to pieces, while just a couple of chicks he fancies are spared.</p>
Earthworm<p>I just read a headline that Macron (France) and and Merz (Germany) aim to ratify quickly the free trade agreement Mercosur (EU-South America). </p><p>Yes, the Mercosur many environmentalists, unions and smallscale farmers (e.g. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ViaCampesinaEU" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ViaCampesinaEU</span></a></span> ) protested against. </p><p>With all the accelerated developments around Trump's unstable tariff announcements, we easily forget that free trade is not automatically good thing.</p><p>It's good for the large companies, the ones that can relocate or source their goods from the cheapest corner of the world. Such as the Brazilian companies in the hands of Bolsonaro-supporters, that happily destroy the Amazonas to grow cheap GMO soy for Spanish pig farmers that pollute the groundwater with nitrates and have immigrant workers under extremely bad conditions cutting meat to be exported to China.</p><p>Free trade does not solve, and even often aggravates, the problems of workers or the environment. Until a few months ago (specifically: until a former Blackrock executive and neoliberal-conservative ideologist was elected German chancellor), the EU was even considering to establish a CO2-tariff, so that imported goods would have to price in their emissions, in order to not give them an unfair advantage against the companies producing with stricter environmental policies inside the EU[*]. Another very important regulation about human rights in the supply chain got also decaffeinated.</p><p>Now, this "the world united against Trump's tariffs"-dynamics will be used by neoliberal assholes to push their agenda of "removing barriers to free trade".</p><p>Be careful with whom you associate, these days. </p><p>* yes, simultaneously, tariffs and regulations are used by the EU to maintain neocolonial advantages and to continue the exploitation of the Global South. With these power structures in place, *every* situation will be used to favour some and hurting many.</p><p>:anarchism: </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Merz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Merz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Macron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThoughtsAboutEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtsAboutEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mercosur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercosur</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RegenerativeEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RegenerativeEconomics</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"Free Trade Agreement" is a euphemism for the people of a country having no control over which products are exported to their country. Products they collectively pay to deal with when they break or reach EoL. Products that put their country in "balance of payments" debt to the countries who claim ownership of the most exports.</p><p>Imagine businesses could deliver any product they like to your home, putting you in debt to the countries they come from. That's household-scale "free trade".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a></p>
Martijn 🇪🇺🇳🇱<p>Trump suggested that he'd only accept <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/negotiations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>negotiations</span></a> with the EU if the EU commits to paying a large, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/yearly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yearly</span></a> sum of money.</p><p>We have a word for that: <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tribute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tribute</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> expects / demands the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> to pay tribute to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>.</p><p>Just <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fuckoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fuckoff</span></a> already!</p><p>I'm not one to agree with the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> often, but they called it nicely: the US is a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bully" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bully</span></a>.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> if you guys <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/negotiate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>negotiate</span></a>, you might as well start licking his boots and pay tribute.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a></p>
Ken S<p>When ‘Australia’ was upset with the Japanese during League of Nations the then-PM ‘Billy’ Hughes made a purposeful effort to lobby US senators to get them onside despite the President’s position on the matter (‘Racial Equality’).</p><p>Meanwhile - fast forward to present day: Australia’s Leaders, Dutton and Albanese are content with just focusing on their election campaigns.<br> <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/tariffs-on-incredibly-important-ally-australia-branded-insulting-in-fiery-us-senate-hearing/fav53aio2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sbs.com.au/news/article/tariff</span><span class="invisible">s-on-incredibly-important-ally-australia-branded-insulting-in-fiery-us-senate-hearing/fav53aio2</span></a> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusVotes2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusVotes2025</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusBiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusBiz</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/InternationalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalRelations</span></a></p>
Simon Brooke<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> were NEVER the party of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a>. Quite the opposite. The Tories were always the party of the Corn Laws, which is to say <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Protectionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protectionism</span></a>.</p>
Ken Walker :caflag:<p>I wonder whether those folks who have dissed <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> and <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/globalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>globalization</span></a> over recent years despite the prosperity and poverty reduction it has brought are paying attention now that the orange madman is giving them what they asked for.</p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1971809/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1971809/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Elon Musk pushes for US–Europe zero-tariff zone amid growing far-right ties <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrossBorderEmployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrossBorderEmployment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FarRightPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRightPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LeagueParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeagueParty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MatteoSalvini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MatteoSalvini</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TradeTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeTariffs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USEuropeZeroTariffZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USEuropeZeroTariffZone</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/carney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carney</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nato</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stability</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenland</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <br>Heather Cox Richardson End of Free Trade and American Leadership</p>
Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au<p>Anyone else notice how quiet the neoliberals have been lately?</p><p>For decades, conservative fans of FA Hayek and Milton Friedman have told us that free trade and free markets are their core principles.</p><p>That we should let the invisible hand of the market decide.</p><p>That any government intervention, no matter how well intended, distorts the markets.</p><p>That government intervention in markets is socialism.</p><p>That governments shouldn't pick winners.</p><p>That taxes are bad.</p><p>That if there's a choice between government intervention to stop global warming from fossil fuel pollution or free trade, they'll gladly pick free trade.</p><p>Right back to Reagan and Thatcher, they swore these were their core principles.</p><p>So.</p><p>An American president intervening in markets by imposing arbitrary protectionist tariff taxes should have been a hard no.</p><p>A political candidate openly campaigning on doing this should have met stiff opposition from the invisible hand's true believers.</p><p>If a true believer in these neoliberal principles (as Rupert Murdoch has claimed to be) owned a news channel (such as Fox News), one would expect outrage at this blatant rejection of free markets and free trade.</p><p>So where are all the neoliberal think tanks? Economists? Politicians?</p><p>Why the silence?</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Trump’s crusade to rebalance trade is occurring because the vicious cycle propping up the FIRE sector at the expense of the American people is breaking down. The rise of the multipolar world order disrupts the American oligarchy’s interests. The modernization and economic development of the rest of the world reduces the need for other countries to rely on American imperial hegemony. There are more trade opportunities than ever outside America. Other countries are less reliant on access to American markets, weakening the dollar’s status as reserve currency. </p><p>Any gains for the productive economy from Trump’s tariffs will likely be sabotaged by the FIRE sector’s malinvestment of capital and the foreign-policy establishment’s unwillingness to withdraw from the world. America can’t have its cake (of maintaining the dollar as the global reserve currency) and eat it too (bringing back manufacturing and resolving trade imbalances). The oligarchy cannot be expected to act in America’s best interests, because that is at the expense of its interests. </p><p>Ending the rule of the American oligarchy would require reductions of military spending, ending proxy conflicts, closing bases, and embracing diplomacy. For the FIRE sector, this would entail taxing financial transactions, using central bank window guidance, and establishing a national development bank to direct investment into productive sectors and not to asset price inflation. Tariff policy wouldn’t be used as a retaliatory action, but as a targeted and measured policy tool for incubating critical domestic industries."</p><p><a href="https://www.compactmag.com/article/liberating-america-requires-more-than-tariffs/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">compactmag.com/article/liberat</span><span class="invisible">ing-america-requires-more-than-tariffs/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Financialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Financialization</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Globalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Globalization</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Protectionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protectionism</span></a></p>
Alex Cordonnier<p>One thing that I haven’t seen discussed much about Trump’s tariffs is how it increases the risk of large-scale war going forward.</p><p>The free trade economic model adopted post-WW2 was specifically designed to make countries economically interdependent and therefore less likely to go to war with each other. (It was also intended to make the rich even richer, in which it wildly succeeded, but that’s another story.)</p><p>Trump’s dismantling free trade will undermine global stability for decades to come. If there is a WW3, we may be able to point to today as a significant contributing factor.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ww3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ww3</span></a></p>