Donald Trump has used tariffs not merely as a bargaining weapon but as a policy of pressure and punishment.
But the vacuum created by Trump’s often erratic foreign policy doesn’t have to be left for Russia or China to fill.
[I]f imajor powers … bully smaller and weaker nations [then] global trade will enter a total law-of-the-jungle era.
If free trade benefits everyone, trade restrictions like tariffs will hurt everyone.