Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:
China has moved, not with press releases, but with precision: dumping U.S. assets, stockpiling gold, tightening financial controls, and strengthening its critical mineral alliances. What’s Trump doing? Reenacting Brexit cosplay with Keir Starmer and selling the illusion of a “breakthrough” U.S.-UK trade deal that, in reality, fixes nothing and fools no one, least of all Europe, where headlines read more like punchlines. - Mary Geddry
https://marygeddry.substack.com/p/tariffs-tyranny-and-the-theater-of