U.S. Trade Policy Tied in Knots: The Triple Fractures Undermining Tariff Strategy
By Ryan Yeh
Current U.S. trade policy, particularly its confrontational stance towards China, is increasingly hobbled by a deep internal incoherence of three critical fractures. First, a jarring disconnect between strategic ambitions and stark economic constraints; second, an irreconcilable tension between populist protectionism and the nature of capital to