September 23, 2018 — The US Treasury is due in October to submit its biannual report to Congress on what countries, if any, are manipulating their currencies to gain unfair trade advantage. President Trump has recently resumed the accusation against China that he made during the election campaign.
July 26, 2018 — American presidents are supposed to take America’s side when dealing with other countries. (“My country, right or wrong.”) When Barack Obama was (falsely) accused of starting his presidency with an “apology tour” of the Middle East, it was understood that apologizing to foreigners would have been a bad thing, if true. Last week Donald Trump received a lot of criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for failing to take the side of his own intelligence services and law enforcement agencies when their findings ran counter to what his friend Vladimir Putin solemnly assured him to be the truth.
June 8, 2018 — I did an interview today as the G-7 Leaders Summit got underway in Canada.
In the video at BNN Bloomberg, I said I thought that if Trump’s tariffs are met with united and calibrated retaliation, he might eventually have to back down.
Here are the questions they sent me ahead of time and my responses,
– Q: Ideally – what do you want to see come from the Group of 7 leaders’ meeting that starts today in Canada?
– A: