The president\u2019s gambit to bring the production of goods such as iPhones back to the US ignores huge supply chain complexities<\/p>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s tariff strategy<\/a> has at least one biblical connection: like the peace of God, it \u201cpasseth all understanding\u201d (Philippians 4:7). Rival attempts to extract a rationale from the chaos include the idea that he is trying to devalue the dollar, or that he is seeking to \u201creshore\u201d the manufacturing capacity that the US lost through decades of globalisation. My own hunch is that he just wants to show who\u2019s the big boss around here \u2013 or as British science fiction author Charles Stross puts it<\/a>, that he \u201cexpects individual nations to come to him, hat in hand, like terrified shopkeepers pleading for mercy from a mafia don\u201d.<\/p>\n Cue the UK\u2019s very own Trump whisperer, Keir Starmer, who, according to Politico<\/a>, plans \u201cto put a review of online safety rules on the table in trade talks\u201d with the US. Which, translated, means that things such as the Online Safety Act<\/a> and copyright rules that hinder US AI companies from looting the intellectual property of the British creative sector may soon become history. The only remaining question is whether Starmer possesses a suitably distressed hat for his penitent journey to Washington.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The president\u2019s gambit to bring the production of goods such as iPhones back to the US ignores huge supply chain complexities Donald Trump\u2019s tariff strategy has at least one biblical connection: like the peace of God, it \u201cpasseth all understanding\u201d (Philippians 4:7). Rival attempts to extract a rationale from the chaos include the idea that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}