The Intelligence from The Economist
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
No way to tweet a friend: Trump’s Mexico tariffs
21 minutes Posted Jun 10, 2019 at 2:57 am.
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In the end, President Donald Trump’s tariff threat did what he had hoped: Mexico has pledged to tighten immigration flows. But such weaponisation of tariffs bodes ill for the future. China’s “green Great Wall” of trees—a bid to halt desertification—may be doing more harm than good. And, we meet some of the Filipino sailors who keep the global shipping industry afloat.

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