In the last few weeks, the world has been on a roller coaster ride over President Donald Trump’s proposals to massively increase tariffs.
Whether by intention or not, American trade policies now stand in an interesting place. Trump has paused America’s largest tariffs increases on virtually every country, save one: China. On China, the Trump administration announced Thursday that it will now apply a 145% tariff, an amount that seems to be climbing by the minute.
Who knows where this ride will end, but it very much appears that the U.S. economic decoupling from China is beginning in earnest, and not a moment too soon.
While the trade debate continues, an explosive hearing on Wednesday with a Facebook whistleblower highlighted why wholly changing our relationship with China needs to be a priority.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook, now Meta, from 2011…
