Governments around the world are scrambling to prepare for Donald Trump’s
Broadly speaking, their actions can be grouped into
- Preemptive moves aimed at appeasing Trump
- Preparatory moves to ready retaliation
- Holding fire and hoping for the best
Let’s look first at some of the appeasers.
Vietnam — which has the fourth-biggest trade surplus with the US after China, Mexico and Canada — is worried it’ll be in Trump’s sights, especially as his trade adviser Peter Navarro called out the country by name in Project 2025, a right-wing policy blueprint.
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