The First of Many – Vietnam Negotiates Zero Tariff Policy

Sundance reporting for CTH 

On March 27th, CTH shared the following: “Wealthy nations will attempt to maintain exports against President Trump tariffs by subsidizing their industries. Corporations have deeper pockets, and the politicians are used to the bribes, we call it “lobbying.” Therefore, the government responds by subsidizing the corporations [ie. the WEF business model].

How does the politics of opposition surface?  …”Canada will subsidize their export industries, Germany will subsidize their auto industry, the EU will provide subsidies to their manufacturing powerhouses, and China will once again start subsidizing their manufacturing industry. Each of these nations will in turn, eventually, devalue their currency.

However, poorer nations will be faster to lower import tariffs on USA goods because they have lower lobbying (bribe) income from corporations to govt. That’s what we should expect to see.” [LINK]

With the tariffs now triggered, it begins exactly as anticipated:

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The economics of the thing is now colliding with the politics and the ideology, of the thing.  Globalists are being confronted.  The proverbial West will cleave according to their financial self-interest.

The World Economic Forum (Build Back Better) model no longer views the USA as an ally.  The MAGAnomic “Big Ugly” is underway.  Countries will thrash and gnash their teeth; then surge in opposition, fail, then attempt to refoot and realign, then surge again and fail again.

And so it will go…

In 2019 Asia (ASEAN) was aligned as China was being confronted. The EU was the intended target for President Trump’s trade reset in term two as scheduled (2021-2025).  However, COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting 2020 election threw a wrench in the plan.

In 2025 the EU focus is now a priority.  ASEAN nations quickly reassemble on the original terms of Trump T-1.  For Trump T-2, China is quickly moved back into adversarial position and focus returns to the previously scheduled look at Europe.

Yes, the EU understand the agenda; they know what was planned then and put aside.  In Trump T-2 there is no avoidance mechanism that can be deployed.  The only play the EU has is defense.

Europe is currently trying to arrange and coordinate a group of ideological allies to assist them.  Those allies include Canada and to a lesser extent, Mexico.  President Trump has shown a keen awareness of their best defense.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will not battle Donald J Trump.  Factually, they all aligned their economic investment policy to gain from Trump confronting China.  ASEAN countries will not battle President Trump; they will comply.

Africa will try to walk a fine line between China and the USA.  However, Africa will not confront President Trump directly and, if push comes to shove, they will likely not support China using their belt-and-road leverage to attempt transnational shipping as a tool for U.S tariff avoidance.  [Insert a Trump-favorable Russia into this regional dynamic.]

It is the EU and the workaround relationships they created within Mexico and Canada who will fight the global trade reset with ferocity.  Everything in the geopolitical world of economic opposition to President Trump will center around Europe.

PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron called on Thursday for European companies to suspend planned investment in the United States after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs on American imports.

“Investments to come or investments announced in recent weeks should be suspended until things are clarified with the United States,” Macron said during a meeting with French industry representatives.

The comments come weeks after French shipping firm CMA CGM announced plans to invest $20 billion in the U.S. to build shipping logistics and terminals, a plan that was hailed by President Trump at the time and mentioned again in his Wednesday speech unveiling the tariffs.

French electrical equipment supplier Schneider Electric (SCHN.PA) said late last month it would invest $700 million in the country to support U.S. energy infrastructure to power AI growth. (more)

The EU judicial and intelligence services hit Marine Le Pen for a reason.

Canada – Mark Carney, France – Macron, Ukraine – Zelenskyy, the EU Commission and Ursula Von der Leyen, all the way through NATO and into the German/Romanian elections and beyond, it’s all connected to the geopolitical dynamics of money, power and globalist economics.

Stay elevated.  Keep watching.  President Donald Trump is a master at the big picture stuff.

[ps.  President Trump assigned every single one of those country specific tariff rates personally.  Few understand why.]