If you believe Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the US president’s decision to pause reciprocal tariffs on all countries except China was the “strategy all along”. It’s a supposed example of Trump’s genius for deal-making while playing rope-a-dope with America’s great rival.
The real story is that Trump’s upending of the international economic order, coupled with plummeting global equities, brought the US to the brink of a bond market crisis. That dire prospect, combined with warnings from business leaders such as JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon about a recession, forced Trump to pull back.
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