The Tariff Trap: Why America’s Protectionist Gambit Only Tightens China’s Grip on Global Manufacturing

Japanese and U.S. governments have decided on Japan's first lending and investment project in the U.S. ... up to $550 billion.

Trump and his advisers have repeatedly insisted that the U.S. president can pretty much do whatever he wants and that the pesky Congress need only be consulted rarely.

[T]he crisis of soft power risks accelerating the decline of [U.S.] power in the world, activating and speeding up centrifugal dynamics that might otherwise have taken years to fully manifest.

The fact that a united Europe is harder to deal with than a divided one is not something only Moscow understands; Washington is aware of it as well.