GEOPOLITICS

America’s Game in Splitting Alliances and Ripping Off China’s Market Share

As America tightens its grip on global alliances and rips apart China’s markets the long-term consequences for international trade and stability are terrifyingly unclear

America’s worst nightmare is that massive, inconveniently independent countries like India and Indonesia might dare to stay politically neutral while China preps for its grand Taiwan adventure, penciled in for no later than 2027.

Enter the Trump administration, stage right, with a master plan to fix all that: a good old-fashioned trade war. The strategy is to slap China with tariffs until its exports cry uncle, then sit back while the rest of Asia scrambles to fill the gap. Of course, don’t make it too easy, keep a few tariffs on everyone else, just enough to nudge them into opening factories in good ol’ America.

It kind of seems to be working. Tech titans like Nvidia, Apple, and TSMC are lining up to throw at least $100 billion each into the great American manufacturing revival. Throw in the likes of Honda and a few other corporate giants, and suddenly the U.S. is sitting on a glitzy $1 trillion promise of industrial rebirth.