Forget soft power, it is all about hard bargains.Donald Trump making good his campaign promise of tariffs and starting with his closest neighbors, Canada and Mexico. We will ask if it is all a big made-for- reality TV drama that ends at the negotiating table, he is already hit pause for Mexico. How much has the world’s most powerful nation decided to decided to throw its weight around? We will gauge reactions.
Trump turned heads at his inauguration when he referenced William McKinley, the tariff-loving turn-of-the-20th Century predecessor to Theodore Roosevelt who tested the powers of the presidency and went to war with Spain to assert dominance over the Americas and the South Pacific.
On that score, Trump’s threats to annex Panama yielding results it seem with the central American nation telling his secretary of state that it’s ready to allow Panama’s participation to expire in China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative. Enough to quell talk of land grabs?
Produced by Théophile Vareille, Rebecca Gnignati and Ilayda Habip.
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