It was April 2 that President Trump unveiled a range of tariffs on countries across the world, with a special focus on China. Since then, the stock market has gone wild, Trump has responded, other countries are looking to negotiate and we’re likely settling into a long drawn-out negotiation battle with Beijing.
In this video, we cover the basics of what happened, address media narratives that have arisen around these basics, and assess what they mean in the lives of ordinary people.
This video comes from the perspective of someone who is unambiguously pro-tariff. The articles below explain why. Today’s video stays mostly focused on current events.
Why Economic Nationalism Must Be The Future (September 2022)
Nikki Haley and the Causes of the Civil War (January 2024)
The Great Tariff Battles Begin (February 6, 2025)
The Tariff King Cometh (April 6, 2025)
In the meantime, in the economy most Americans live in day-to-day, things are stabilizing. Even CNN can’t help but acknowledge it:
And the border is stabilized, as even CBS admits:
The core reasons Trump was elected—inflation and illegal immigration have been tamed in less than three months.
Now we’re settling into the long battle of reshaping the economic and strategic order of the world, of which the events discussed in this video are at the heart of.
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